Rush Limbaugh Quotes

Rush Hudson Limbaugh III is an American radio talk show host and conservative political commentator. He currently resides in Palm Beach, Florida, where he broadcasts The Rush Limbaugh Show. According to December 2015 estimates by Talkers Magazine, Rush Limbaugh has a cume of around 13.25 million unique listeners , making his show the most listened-to talk-radio program in the US.

Since he was 16, Limbaugh has worked a series of disc jockey jobs. His talk show began in 1984 at Sacramento, California radio station KFBK, featuring his ongoing format of political commentary and listener calls. In 1988, Limbaugh began broadcasting his show nationally from radio station WABC in New York City, and the show's flagship station became WOR in 2014.

In the 1990s, Limbaugh's books The Way Things Ought to Be and See, I Told You So made The New York Times Best Seller list. In his books and on his show, Limbaugh frequently criticizes what he regards as liberal policies and politicians, as well as what he perceives as a pervasive liberal bias in major U.S. media. Limbaugh is among the highest paid people in U.S. media, signing a contract in 2008 for $400 million through 2016. In 2015, Forbes listed his earnings at $79 million for the previous 12 months, and ranked him the 11th highest earning celebrity in the world. His most recent contract, signed on July 31, 2016, will take his radio program to 2020, its 32nd year.

✵ 12. January 1951
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Famous Rush Limbaugh Quotes

“There are more acres of forest land in America today than when Columbus discovered the continent in 1492.”

See, I Told You So
Atria
1993-11-01
chapter 14
171
978-0671871208
93086342
29250177
1447014M
Later version of his claim: Do you know we have more acreage of forest land in the United States today than we did at the time the Constitution was written?
The Rush Limbaugh Show
1994-02-18
Radio, quoted in [The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, New Press, 1995-05-01, 18, 156584260X, 31782620]

“I love you, too. Big time.”

Limbaugh's last words, early February 2021.
As recorded by David Limbaugh in his eulogy Goodbye to my brother -- for now https://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2021/04/09/goodbye-to-my-brother--for-now-n2587628
2020s

Rush Limbaugh Quotes about people

“More people have died at Chappaquiddick than have died at nuclear plants.”

[Davis, E. Gene, Get 'Em Laughing: Public Speaking Humor, Quotes and Illustrations, Trafford Publishing, 2007-09-12, 195, 1425114334, 9781425114336]
Attributed

“If the word of how they're being treated keeps getting out, we're going to have al-Qaeda people surrendering all over the world trying to get in place.”

Stated about Guantanamo Bay (June 16, 2005), quoted in — [Stanford, David, Doonesbury.com's The War in Quotes, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2008, 68, 16900868M, 0740772317, 9780740772313, 2008024621]

“Let me tell you something. They say he lied to Congress. I can think of no better bunch of people to lie to than Congress.”

The Rush Limbaugh Show
1994-06-06
Television, quoted in [The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, New Press, 1995-05-01, 105, 156584260X, 31782620]
on Oliver North

Rush Limbaugh Quotes about thinking

“Net neutrality would require that every search engine produce an equal number of results that satisfy every disagreement about [every] issue… Just think of it as Fairness Doctrine for the Internet. I'm not making this up.”

On net neutrality, The Rush Limbaugh Show, March 16, 2010 http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_031610/content/01125111.guest.html

“I don't think he's been that good from the get-go. I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL. I think the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. They're interested in black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well. I think there's a little hope invested in McNabb and he got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he really didn't deserve.”

2003 September Sunday NFL Countdown ESPN, quoted in * http://www.laweekly.com/2003-10-16/columns/rise-of-the-anti-machine/2/ Rise of the Anti-Machine: Dittohead Blues LA Weekly 2003-10-09, [ESPN, Limbaugh's comments touch off controversy, October 1, 2003, https://web.archive.org/web/20200220004444/https://www.espn.com/nfl/news/story?id=1627887], [Snopes, A list documents racist statements made by conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh, February 4. 2020, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rush-limbaugh-racist-quotes/], [Rush Limbaugh’s most outrageous moments in 25 years on the radio, August 1, 2013, Morgan, Whitaker, MSNBC, http://www.msnbc.com/politicsnation/rush-limbaughs-most-outrageous-moments-25], and [Rush Limbaugh now has a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Here are just 20 of the outrageous things he's said, Jason, Silverstein, February 6, 2020, CBS News, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rush-limbaugh-presidential-medal-of-freedom-state-of-the-union-outrageous-quotes/].

/ 2000s

Rush Limbaugh: Trending quotes

“Look it, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.”

The Classless NFL Culture The Rush Limbaugh Show 2007-01-19 http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2007/01/19/the_classless_nfl_culture, quoted in * 2007-01-27 Hey Rush, when it comes to sports … shhh! Mike Freeman CBS SportsLine (also [Rush Limbaugh now has a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Here are just 20 of the outrageous things he's said, Jason, Silverstein, February 6, 2020, CBS News, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rush-limbaugh-presidential-medal-of-freedom-state-of-the-union-outrageous-quotes/])

/ 2000s

“Lord's Resistance Army are Christians. It means God. I was only kidding. Lord's Resistance Army are Christians. They are fighting the Muslims in Sudan. And Obama has sent troops, United States troops to remove them from the battlefield, which means kill them.”

Obama Invades Uganda, Targets Christians
The Rush Limbaugh Show
2011-10-14
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/10/14/obama_invades_uganda_targets_christians, quoted in * 2011-10-15
Rush Limbaugh on Lord's Resistance Army: "Obama Invades Uganda, Targets Christians"
Blake
Houshell
Foreign Policy
0015-7228
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/10/15/rush_limbaugh_on_lords_resistance_army_obama_invades_uganda_targets_christians
Defending the Lord's Resistance Army, a terrorist group criticised for gross human rights abuses in Uganda.

Rush Limbaugh Quotes

“You know how to stop abortion? Require that each one occur with a gun.”

The Rush Limbaugh Show
2013-01-16
Radio, quoted in * 2013-01-18
Rush Limbaugh: 'You Know How to Stop Abortion? Require That Each One Occur With a Gun'
Conor
Friedersdorf
The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/01/rush-limbaugh-you-know-how-to-stop-abortion-require-that-each-one-occur-with-a-gun/267279/

“Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.”

as "Jeff Christie" on a top-40 music program in Pittsburgh in the 1970s, quoted in * Mouth at Work
1990-10-08
Richard
Gehr
Newsday
Recalling a stint as an "insult-radio" DJ in Pittsburgh, he admits feeling guilty about, for example, telling a black listener he could not understand to "take that bone out of your nose and call me back."; also in [The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, New Press, 1995-05-01, 49, 156584260X, 31782620, 15840895W], and Bone Voyage, Snopes.com, 2007-09-04 http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/limbaugh.asp,

“Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society.”

35 Undeniable Truths of Life Sacramento Union 1988, also quoted in * The "Truth" according to Limbaugh: Feminism established "to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society" Media Matters for America 2005-08-16 http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200508160001, [The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, New Press, 1995-05-01, 56, 156584260X, 31782620], [Rush Limbaugh now has a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Here are just 20 of the outrageous things he's said, Jason, Silverstein, February 6, 2020, CBS News, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rush-limbaugh-presidential-medal-of-freedom-state-of-the-union-outrageous-quotes/], and [Rush Limbaugh’s most outrageous moments in 25 years on the radio, August 1, 2013, Morgan, Whitaker, MSNBC, http://www.msnbc.com/politicsnation/rush-limbaughs-most-outrageous-moments-25]

/ 1990s

“Great comedy is great comedy only if it has an element of truth in it.”

[Davis, E. Gene, Get 'Em Laughing: Public Speaking Humor, Quotes and Illustrations, Trafford Publishing, 2007-09-12, 68, 1425114334, 9781425114336]
Attributed

“So I shamelessly say, no, I want him to fail, if his agenda is a far-left collectivism, some people say socialism, as a conservative heartfelt, deeply, why would I want socialism to succeed?”

Asked if he wanted Barack Obama to succeed as a president on Hannity's America January 22, 2009 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,481484,00.html

“It's beyond me how anybody can look at these protestors and call them anything other than what they are: anti-American, anticapitalist, pro-Marxist communists.”

Speaking about Iraq War protests (February 2003), quoted in — [Hunt, Jim, They Said What?: Astonishing Quotes on American Democracy, Power, and Dissent, Polipoint Press, 2009, 22, 23398015M, 9780981709161, 0981709168, 2009023037, 313653904, [JK31.H88 2009]]

“I'm talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You ever heard of need to blow some steam off?”

Stated about Abu Ghraib (May 4, 2004), quoted in — [Stanford, David, Doonesbury.com's The War in Quotes, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2008, 77, 16900868M, 0740772317, 9780740772313, 2008024621]

“Too many whites are getting away with drug use…Too many whites are getting away with drug sales…The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too.”

The Rush Limbaugh Show (October 5, 1995), quoted in * Words of wisdom for Rush: Just hush
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/news/limbaugh/120703_limbaugh.html
The Palm Beach Post
2003-12-07
Frank
Cerabino

“The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.”

The Rush Limbaugh Show 1992 Radio, quoted in [The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, New Press, 1995-05-01, 105, 156584260X, 31782620] sourced to * 1993 January Flush Rush Quarterly; also ([Rush Limbaugh now has a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Here are just 20 of the outrageous things he's said, Jason, Silverstein, February 6, 2020, CBS News, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rush-limbaugh-presidential-medal-of-freedom-state-of-the-union-outrageous-quotes/] and [June 7, 2000, Limbaugh: A Color Man Who Has a Problem With Color?, Steve, Rendall, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, https://fair.org/article/limbaugh-a-color-man-who-has-a-problem-with-color/])

/ 1990s

“The dream end of this is that this keeps up to the convention and we have a replay of Chicago 1968 with burning cars, protests, fires, literal riots, and all of that. That's that's the objective here.”

telling his listeners about his idea to turn the National Democratic Convention into "Operation Chaos" on The Rush Limbaugh Show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjwE-kJpyts (April 9, 2008)

“You know I have always tried to be honest with you and open about my life, so I need to tell you that part of what you have heard and read is correct. I am addicted to prescription pain medication.”

The Rush Limbaugh Show
2003-10-10, quoted in * 2004-02-15
Taking on Rush
Frank
Cerabino
The Palm Beach Post
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/news/limbaugh/021504_limbaugh.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20040624220725/http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/news/limbaugh/021504_limbaugh.html
2004-06-24

“The people we see protesting in Madison are the equivalent of Hosni Mubarak apparatchiks who are trying to hold onto their privileges despite the will of the people who are being exploited to pay for them.”

Democrats Walk Off Job in Loyalty to Their Paymasters Over Voters
The Rush Limbaugh Show
2011-02-22
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_022211/content/01125108.guest.html
Regarding comparisons made between the 2011 Wisconsin protests and the 2011 Egyptian revolution

“You find yourself staring, looking at, casually glancing at a woman, but you know that it's now socially taboo. You shouldn't be doing it. And you think everybody is noticing you doing it and condemning you in their minds. You shouldn't — so you walk up to the woman and say, "Will you please ask your breasts to stop staring at my eyes?"”

Libs Want Men to Stop Looking at Women
The Rush Limbaugh Show
2013-12-09
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/12/09/libs_want_men_to_stop_looking_at_women, quoted in * The Rush Limbaugh Guide To Sexual Harassment
Media Matters for America
2013-12-09
http://mediamatters.org/video/2013/12/09/the-rush-limbaugh-guide-to-sexual-harassment/197197

“Let's remember one thing, folks, while we go forward. Not one Republican voted for this bailout. Remember way back in the fall, not one Republican voted for the TARP bailout, and this was why.”

The New McCarthyism
The Rush Limbaugh Show
2009-03-18
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2009/03/18/the_new_mccarthyism, quoted in * Limbaugh falsely claimed 'not one Republican voted for the TARP bailout'
Media Matters for America
2009-03-18
http://mediamatters.org/research/200903180032

“What do we have to do to make the women realize we don't hate 'em? Change our attitude on abortion? Where does this stuff stop?”

My Response to Senator Graham's Rationale for Supporting Amnesty
The Rush Limbaugh Show
2013-06-18
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/06/18/my_response_to_senator_graham_s_rationale_for_supporting_amnesty

“The feminazis gathered in Washington on Sunday, about a half-million of them, it says here, and it was the first big pro-abortion rally in 12 years.”

2004: Limbaugh Referred To Abortion-Rights Activists As "Feminazis." On the April 26, 2004, broadcast of his radio show, Limbaugh said of a rally in Washington, D.C., on April 25, 2004 "Feminazi": The History Of Limbaugh's Trademark Slur Against Women https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2012/03/12/feminazi-the-history-of-limbaughs-trademark-slu/186336

“It's sort of like hazing, a fraternity prank. Sort of like that kind of fun.”

Stated about abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib by United States soldiers (May 3-4, 2004), quoted in — [Hunt, Jim, They Said What?: Astonishing Quotes on American Democracy, Power, and Dissent, Polipoint Press, 2009, 196, 23398015M, 9780981709161, 0981709168, 2009023037, 313653904, [JK31.H88 2009]]

“So, Ms. Fluke and the rest of you feminazis, here's the deal: If we are going to pay for you to have sex, we want something for it, and I'll tell you what it is — we want you to post the videos online so we can all watch.”

The Rush Limbaugh Show
2011-03-01
Radio, quoted in * Limbaugh's Misogynistic Attack On Georgetown Law Student Continues With Increased Vitriol
Media Matters for America
2009-03-09
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201203010012

“Styrofoam and plastic milk jugs are biodegradable! Do you know what isn't biodegradable? Paper!”

The Rush Limbaugh Show
1991-06-15
Radio, quoted in [The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, New Press, 1995-05-01, 19, 156584260X, 31782620]

“I prefer to call the most obnoxious feminists what they really are: feminazis. Tom Hazlett, a good friend who is an esteemed and highly regarded professor of economics at the University of California at Davis, coined the term to describe any female who is intolerant of any point of view that challenges militant feminism. I often use it to describe women who are obsessed with perpetuating a modern-day holocaust: abortion. There are 1.5 million abortions a year, and some feminists almost seem to celebrate that figure. There are not many of them, but they deserve to be called feminazis.A feminazi is a woman to whom the most important thing in life is seeing to it that as many abortions as possible are performed. Their unspoken reasoning is quite simple. Abortion is the single greatest avenue for militant women to exercise their quest for power and advance their belief that men aren't necessary. They don't need men in order to be happy. They certainly don't want males to be able to exercise any control over them. Abortion is the ultimate symbol of women's emancipation from the power and influence of men. With men being precluded from the ultimate decision-making process regarding the future of life in the womb, they are reduced to their proper, inferior role. Nothing matters but me, says the feminazi. My concerns prevail over all else. The fetus doesn't matter, it's an unviable tissue mass.”

[The Way Things Ought to Be, Pocket Books, October 1992, 193, 978-0671751456, 92028659, 26397008, 1724938M]

“God may have replied”

Limbaugh: Volcanic ash cloud is God’s punishment for health care
2010-04-17
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/04/17/limbaugh-volcanic-ash-cloud-gods-punishment-health-care/, quoted in * Limbaugh: "God may have replied" to passage of health care reform with volcano eruption in Iceland
Media Matters for America
2010-04-16
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201203010012

“Women still live longer than men because their lives are easier.”

March 1, 2005, on The Rush Limbaugh Show ([Rush Limbaugh now has a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Here are just 20 of the outrageous things he's said, Jason, Silverstein, February 6, 2020, CBS News, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rush-limbaugh-presidential-medal-of-freedom-state-of-the-union-outrageous-quotes/]; [Rush Limbaugh’s most outrageous moments in 25 years on the radio, August 1, 2013, Morgan, Whitaker, MSNBC, http://www.msnbc.com/politicsnation/rush-limbaughs-most-outrageous-moments-25]; [Limbaugh: “Women still live longer than men because their lives are easier”, Katie, Barge, March 3, 2005, Media Matters for America, https://www.mediamatters.org/rush-limbaugh/limbaugh-women-still-live-longer-men-because-their-lives-are-easier])
2000s

“Nobody is a fiscal conservative anymore. All this talk about concern for the deficit and the budget has been bogus for as long as it's been around.”

" Rush Limbaugh just admitted Republicans have totally abandoned a core party principle https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/17/politics/rush-limbaugh-debt-trump/index.html", CNN (July 17, 2019)
2010s

“This coronavirus, they're just — all of this panic is just not warranted. This, I'm telling you, when I tell you — when I've told you that this virus is the common cold. When I said that, it was based on the number of cases. It's also based on the kind of virus this is.”

The Rush Limbaugh Show, , quoted in " Rush Limbaugh: Coronavirus is like the common cold, and “all of this panic is just not warranted” https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/rush-limbaugh-coronavirus-common-cold-and-all-panic-just-not-warranted", Media Matters (
2020s

“I will do all your reading, and I will tell you what to think about it.”

During his show as quoted in * https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-20-tm-836-story.html
WHAT’S THE RUSH? : Radio Loudmouth Rush Limbaugh Harangues Feminazis, Environmental Wackos and Commie-Libs While His Ratings Soar
Bob
Baker
Los Angeles Times
1991-01-20
1990s

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