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Rush Limbaugh
68 quotes
“Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: around 1990 (; ; )
“Greetings, conversationalists across the fruited plain, this is Rush Limbaugh, the most dangerous man in America, with the largest hypothalamus in North America, serving humanity simply by opening my mouth, destined for my own wing in the Museum of Broadcasting, executing everything I do flawlessly with zero mistakes, doing this show with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair because I have talent on loan from . . . God. Rush Limbaugh. A man. A legend. A way of life.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am on the radio for one reason: to attract the largest audience I can and hold it. I am not in a think tank.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I will do all your reading, and I will tell you what to think about it.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(All equally truthful: number 1 is not more or less important than 35.)”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Styrofoam and plastic milk jugs are biodegradable! Do you know what isn't biodegradable? Paper!”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Militant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The worst of all of this is the lie that condoms really protect against AIDS. The condom failure rate can be as high as 20 percent. Would you get on a plane — or put your children on a plane — if one of five passengers would be killed on the flight? Well, the statistic holds for condoms, folks.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Can't take sides? — — —! These were American journalists, and they can't take sides? That attitude illustrates the haughty arrogance of people in the news business.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government. They say that violates the prohibition against church and state.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this sound like a record of genocide?”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are more acres of forest land in America today than when Columbus discovered the continent in 1492.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The second violent American revolution is just about — I got my fingers about a fourth of an inch apart — is just about that far away.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On his radio show ([February 22, 1995]), as cited in "The Emotional Politics of a Political Trial", The New York Times (April 27, 1997)
“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.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Rush Limbaugh Show (October 5, 1995), quoted in {{citation
“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.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speaking about Iraq War protests (February 2003), quoted in — {{cite book
“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.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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 Limbaug…
“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.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's sort of like hazing, a fraternity prank. Sort of like that kind of fun.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stated about abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib by United States soldiers (May 3-4, 2004), quoted in — {{cite book
“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?”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stated about Abu Ghraib (May 4, 2004), quoted in — {{cite book
“I think it's time to get rid of this whole National Basketball Association. Call it the TBA, the Thug Basketball Association, and stop calling them teams. Call 'em gangs.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: December 8, 2004 on The Rush Limbaugh Show (; )
“Women still live longer than men because their lives are easier.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: March 1, 2005, on The Rush Limbaugh Show (; ; )
“We need to shut down this Gitmo prison? Well, don't shut it down - we just need to start an advertising campaign. We need to call it, 'Gitmo, the Muslim resort.' Any resort that treated people like this would have ads all over the New York Times trying to get people to come down and visit for some R&R, for some rest and relaxation.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stated about Guantanamo Bay, on The Rush Limbaugh Show, (June 14, 2005), quoted in — {{cite book
“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.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stated about Guantanamo Bay (June 16, 2005), quoted in — {{cite book
“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.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: telling his listeners about his idea to turn the National Democratic Convention into "Operation Chaos" on The Rush Limbaugh Show (April 9, 2008)
“He discusses his service in Iraq, the wounds he suffered there, and he says to me in this ad, "Until you have the guts to call me a 'phony soldier' to my face, stop telling lies about my service." You know, this is such a blatant use of a valiant combat veteran, lying to him about what I said, then strapping those lies to his belt, sending him out via the media in a TV ad to walk into as many people as he can walk into.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Brian McGough's VoteVets.org ad criticizing him for "phony soldiers" comment, on the October 2, 2008 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh
“What [Obama] is talking about is the absorption of as much of the private sector by the US government as possible, from the banking business, to the mortgage industry, the automobile business, to health care. I do not want the government in charge of all of these things. I don't want this to work. So I'm thinking of replying to the guy, "Okay, I'll send you a response, but I don't need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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?”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Asked if he wanted Barack Obama to succeed as a president on Hannity's America January 22, 2009
“You know, this is all BS, as far as I'm concerned. Cross species evolution, I don't think anybody's ever proven that. They're going out of their way now to establish evolution as a mechanism for creation, which, of course, you can't do.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On evolution, The Rush Limbaugh Show, May 19 2009
“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.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't doubt that the number of H1N1 cases out there is being hyped. And for many of the same reasons that AIDS was—and still is—hyped in Africa. Everything in Africa's called AIDS. The reason is they get aid money for it. AIDS is the biggest pile of-the biggest pot they throw money into.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: October, 2009 (; ; ; )
“You've got enough in here that people who get hold of this — like AP or any of the state-controlled media — they're going to focus on the soap opera aspects of your book and they're going to ignore what is truly one of the most substantive policy books I've read.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Sarah Palin's Going Rogue: An American Life, The Rush Limbaugh Show, November 20, 2009
“Black unemployment is terrible. The black frame of mind is terrible, they're depressed, they're down — Obama's not doing anything for 'em. How is that hoax and change workin' for ya? They're all livid. I mean, they thought there were gonna be an exact 180-degree economic reversal and it's done nothing but get bad for everybody, but they're especially upset about it because they look at him as one of them, and now they feel abandoned. And I'm sure Tiger Woods' choice of females not helping 'em out with their attitudes there either.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the Black state of mind, The Rush Limbaugh Show, December 8, 2009
“And I'm not going to apologize for it, I'm just quoting Emanuel. It's in the news. I think the news is that he's out there calling Obama's number one supporters effing retards. So now there's going to be a meeting. There's going to be a retard summit at the White House, much like the beer summit between Obama and Gates and that cop in Cambridge.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Regarding comparisons made between the 2011 Wisconsin protests and the 2011 Egyptian revolution
“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.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God may have replied”
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“You know how to stop abortion? Require that each one occur with a gun.”
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“If one of the main reasons for passing the Gang of Eight immigration bill is so Republicans can prove that they don't hate Hispanics, then what's next? Are the Republicans going to have to support gay marriage to prove that they don't hate gays? Are the Republicans then going to have to support affirmative action to prove they don't hate blacks?”
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“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?”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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?”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You know what the magic word, the only thing that matters in American sexual mores today is? One thing. You can do anything, the Left will promote and understand and tolerate anything, so long as there is one element. Do you know what it is? Consent. If there is consent on both or all three or all four, however many are involved in the sex act, it's perfectly fine. Whatever it is. But if the left ever senses and smells that there's no consent in part of the equation then here come the rape police. But consent is the magic key to the left.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Limbaugh: The Left Sends Out "The Rape Police" Whenever There's Sex With "No Consent" (Also Known As Rape)", Media Matters (October 12, 2016).
“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 (1951–2021) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rush Limbaugh just admitted Republicans have totally abandoned a core party principle", CNN (July 17, 2019)
“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.”
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