Rush Limbaugh

Football leads to a crime rate among people that play in the NFL that is less than the gen pop, the general population. The numbers have been run. It\'s just that people who play football are stars and, as such, what they do occurs with greater media scrutiny. So when one of them happens to engage in some sort of questionable behavior, it happens to (in a lot of it people\'s minds) speak for the whole sport and everybody that plays it.

I\'ve always said, \"I love the women\'s movement, especially when walking behind it.\" And I have never understood why it is that people - you know, I hate liberalism. I\'m totally opposed to liberalism. I do not like that at all.

All these think tank experts in Washington at the Woodrow Wilson Center say, \"It\'s really, really a dangerous thing. It\'s just not right. The president of the United States should never, ever make his first foreign trip to the Middle East! Never, ever. Because it\'s too fraught with potential disaster. Because President Trump clearly is not sophisticated enough to know the idiosyncrasies, the customs, and the requirements.\" That\'s right, no president ever has. Do you know that there has never by a direct flight from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to Tel Aviv until Donald Trump did it? Never.

Conservatism, by itself, is not the defeating agent for liberalism today. At one point I was among many who thought it would be. It\'s too bifurcated. It\'s too disjointed. It\'s too fractured, too un-unified, disunified, whatever, to be a formative opposition force. But there are still millions of people that want nothing to do with what liberalism and the Democrats stand for.

When I was growing up, I never expected to be able to afford everything I wanted. There are certain things I couldn\'t afford. I didn\'t run around blasting those companies or those things. I just decided I was gonna have to, if I really wanted it, find a way to pay for it. But that doesn\'t seem to be the attitude today. The attitude today is if you want it, you should have it. And if you can\'t afford it, it\'s not your fault. It\'s the provider\'s fault because they\'re corporations and they rip you off and they kill you.

Consider the Donald Trump that you have seen and watched in Saudi Arabia and now in Israel. Contrast that with the president you see and hear reported on in Washington. The two men don\'t even look remotely similar. This trip should not be possible. The news coming out of this trip should not be possible based on what everybody is saying about Trump in Washington. Incompetent, boorish, impolitic, rude, mean, all those things.

I know that some people believe Winston Churchill, magnanimity in victory. I\'ve always believed magnanimity in defeat and then sneak up on \'em when they\'re not looking when you fire back. That\'s what I\'ve always - magnanimity.

There is not a morsel of evidence backing up any of the claims or any of the narratives or any of the premises that make up today\'s news. There is not a morsel of evidence on anybody. There\'s not a morsel of evidence on Flynn! On Manafort! On Carter Page! There\'s no evidence on Trump! And yet the reporting goes on. Convicted of high crimes already without a trial. It\'s a great piece by Eli Lake.

Net neutrality is rooted in a number of leftist assumptions, and that is that all corporation is evil, that all profit is evil, and that all people in corporations are not people, because corporations aren\'t people. A gigantic rip-off. Then you couple their own economic circumstances into this and the way they\'ve been raised, thinking if they want it, they should have it, then you get this so-called informed media and opinion about all this stuff.

If Islam is so peaceful, why is everybody so damn frightened of offending them? And on the other hand, if Christianity is so violent as people like Whoopi Goldberg and others tell us, why is nobody afraid to offend Christians? People laugh at, make fun of, and mock Christians all day long with no fear whatsoever. But you so much as think anything offensive about Islam, and they descend on you and they accuse you of violating political correctness and they beg you to shut up.

We continue to get stories that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians, even though there\'s no evidence. We continue to get stories that Donald Trump is saying the most insulting, stupid things to people, that he\'s bragging to enemies about his nut job FBI director that he fired. None of it is substantiated. But there are no anonymous leaks on this trip to the Middle East. So far. We don\'t have a single story that tells us that Trump told the king of Saudi Arabia, \"Take the veil off, man. Get into the twenty-first century and look like a real man.\" No leaks like this.

One of the panelists on CNN, after the Hillary Clinton commencement speech, literally started crying, \"I can\'t believe, I can\'t believe the election actually happened and she lost.\" I don\'t need to see that. I don\'t need to see a bunch of whimpering leftists who themselves are incapable of grounding themselves in reality, whining and moaning.

I love smarta**es when it\'s stuff I agree with.

I just don\'t need cable news. There\'s nothing that happens on cable news that I don\'t already know. I\'m talking about just the acquisition of information, learning things. What is on cable TV is not that. Cable news isn\'t news. What is happening on cable news right now is a political assassination of not just Donald Trump, but of ideas and cultural mores that I believe in.

Now your kids can\'t escape. Thirteen-year-olds back then, if they didn\'t watch the evening news, they didn\'t see news. If they didn\'t watch the 6:30 or seven p.m. news, they didn\'t see news. Today younger people have much more access to that kind of hard news than you did when you were 13 back then.

The Trump win is the biggest upset victory maybe ever, certainly in my lifetime, it\'s the biggest upset. So the emotion that\'s attached to that is gonna be profound. The Reagan win was huge for many of the same reasons, but it wasn\'t the big upset that this was.

I know perception is reality in politics and I know how it looks, but the reality is Democrats lost the election and what they thought it was gonna be, a landslide with the best candidate they could have ever nominated, Hillary Clinton, look at the rejection. The rejection is real. They\'re creating a Fantasy Island world in which none of this happened. And that\'s where they\'re choosing to live. That\'s not healthy, folks.

Liberalism is easy because it\'s emotion. You don\'t have to do anything to solve the problem. You just have to act like you care about it. Look at the liberalism that\'s on display. It\'s enraged; it is causing riots; it is endangering people.

Something I\'ve always said is if you think back as an adult to when you were in school, think back who your favorite teacher or your best teacher was, it was probably not somebody you liked, but they got more out of you than you thought you had.

You know, I\'m the mayor of Realville. I\'m Mr. Literal. And I never saw the benefit of complaining and whining and moaning. I don\'t complain and whine and moan anyway, and I don\'t deal well with people that do. I don\'t know how to react to complaining, other than say, \"Oh, gee, I\'m sorry.\" I don\'t know how to react to whining and moaning. It kind of bothers me. So I don\'t do it myself. Lord knows, I got all kinds of things. I could spend the rest of this week whining and moaning if you wanted me to about things. I just don\'t.

If Trump\'s so-called sexual predator nature is something the media wants to not let go of, then the way to deal with it is not to bring up Bill Clinton.

The net neutrality game is to make everybody the same so that there\'s no difference and the prices are the same and if these Millennials got their way nothing would cost anything. But it\'s classic. This is a great illustration. Net neutrality is being stood upside down which is good because it\'s pro-competition, it offers customers options.

Come on, let\'s face it. Jeans are like a Volvo or a Saab, or Prius, it\'s a liberal status symbol. Jeans are liberal status symbols. I know everybody wears \'em now. It\'s another battle we\'ve lost. We run around looking like a bunch of hippies, and I\'m not going to do it.

Whatever your business - I don\'t care if it\'s radio, if it\'s Wall Street, if it\'s mainstream retail, whatever you do - do not hang around people who failed at it. Whatever you do, do not take guidance from people who failed at it - unless they, at some point, succeeded. Everybody who fails is bitter, and failures often blame everybody else.

Whatever you think of Romney and his politics, as a human being there\'s none better. As a man of integrity, man of character, there\'s none better.

The Clintons have sold everything about America and its policy and its future for their own personal gain in terms of amassing incredible wealth.

Honest to God, so International Women\'s Day, just like May Day and just like Earth Day, all have roots to Marxism and the Bolsheviks and the Soviets.

Just like self-interest is not selfishness, well, confidence is not a negative. Confidence is not an off-putting thing. It\'s, in fact, necessary for all good leaders.

The remarks that [Steven] Lerner gave at Pace University: \"\'Unions are almost dead. We cannot survive doing what we do but the simple fact of the matter is community organizations are almost dead also. And if you think about what we need to do it may give us some direction which is essentially what the folks that are in charge - the big banks and everything - what they want is stability.\'\" So we have \"\'to destabilize the folks that are in power and start to rebuild a movement\'\".

The 14th Amendment, 2nd Amendment, there\'s nothing in the Constitution that says that if you are born to an illegal immigrant in America, that you are an American citizen. It\'s not there. People think it is. They confuse it with being born to an American citizen in America or overseas. But there\'s nothing in the law, nothing in the Constitution.