Rush Limbaugh

I think people will lie to pollsters. I think the truth of Obama and what people think of Obama is when you ask people about his agenda and then nobody likes anything. They don\'t like Obamacare. They don\'t like the Iran policy. They don\'t like taxes. They don\'t like anything he\'s done. But you put him in the question and people get scared to say anything negative because of the racial component.

How do you think we have the home mortgage deduction? We have it because way back when it was determined that the American dream equaled home ownership. And everybody knows that the vast majority of the American people will never be able to write a check for a house. You have to finance it.

What deal is [Maxine Waters] talking about? [Rex] Tillerson\'s done a lot of deals. [Donald] Trump\'s done a lot of deals, but she\'s got a deal in mind that Tillerson negotiated with [Vladimir] Putin. Putin is there, or Tillerson\'s there to lift the sanctions.

The system happens to be Washington and the way politics works, because whatever it is, it isn\'t working. It defies common sense. And part and parcel of this, right in the middle of it is the media and their lying and their distorting and their favoritism and their efforts to impugn and destroy people like us who want to stop this mess that\'s been progressing in a deteriorating way for way too many years.

We have, a Democrat Party once again adding to the civility of the discourse, Maxine Waters claiming that [Donald] Trump and his people are scumbags \'cause Trump wants to help [Vladimir] Putin put the Soviet Union back together by raping a bunch of other countries and stealing their resources.

I\'ll bet you half of my problems with liberals in the media is I live in Literalville. I say what I mean. That\'s politically incorrect. Most people don\'t say what they mean.

It\'s almost an addiction that some people have to what I call the perfection that Hollywood presents of successful, beautiful, fun-loving people.

The American political system is a giant bureaucracy.

One thing Donald Trump does, the minute something\'s out there about him that\'s not true, he blows it up. He reacts to it.

People continually ask me, \"Why does the media do what it does? Why are they so obviously self-destructive? Why are they so obviously predictable? Why is the media so obviously biased? Do they not see how other people see?\" No, they don\'t. But then again, they don\'t care, folks.

This woman [Lena Dunham] makes up being raped or something at Oberlin College and then she did commercials for Hillary [Clinton] so she\'s a darling, she ran that TV show at HBO. HBO\'s a left-wing enclave. It\'s worshiped. And so she benefits from that.

I go wading into the fire fit, but the conservative movement - jeez. Look at Milo [Yiannopoulos]. He\'s in his twenties. He\'s flamboyantly gay. We\'re nowhere near the conservative movement here. Ideologically he\'s pure. Ideologically he\'s brave, he\'s right down the line.

Nobody\'s ever gonna hold [ Lena Dunham] accountable. She\'s a liberal and she\'s a woman and so she\'s doubly indemnified against any serious analysis of what the hell she says or thinks. It\'s a clear example of the double standard out there.

What I know is that taxation, as far as liberal Democrats are concerned, is not about money. It\'s about power.

[The press] had no sense of humor about [Donald Trump\'s personal ask the Russians to get involved into the Hillary Clinton\'s emails search]. That\'s why Maxine Waters and others think that Trump and the Russians were working together to hack the election.

If somebody tells me they want something or they want something to happen and if it\'s in my power to make it happen, I start working on it thinking they meant it.

I\'m a literalist. I believe what people say. When they say it, I think they mean it.

The conservative movement today is so fractured that I think you\'d have a tough time actually defining it and pointing to it.

There\'s always going to be - I don\'t care who it is, there\'s always going to be - the temptation in Washington to seek the favor of the leftist media. It\'s always gonna be there, no matter who it is. I can only think of one exception, and that\'s Reagan. It\'s the rule rather than the exception.

The number of people in public life who appear on television or on the big screen who are content to be who they are, you can probably count on one hand.

You can use the tax code to make people smoke less. You can use the tax code to make \'em smoke more. You can use the tax code to make \'em buy beer or buy less beer, more booze or less booze. You can screw the tax code around to make \'em make more charitable contributions. You think they\'re going to get rid of this power? Ain\'t no way, fool.

It\'s crucial that people think that their lives have meaning and a purpose and that there\'s a reward or some sort of reality to achieving something and to learning something and becoming functional.

Almost 40% of all young adults are living with their parents. This is a 75-year high in America. Forty percent of young adults are living with their parents. I see stuff like this, and I think it\'s a good thing I didn\'t become a parent, because if that were happening to me, you wouldn\'t want to be my kid.

If Milo [Yiannopoulos] were a liberal, he could say whatever and then some, and he wouldn\'t be addressing Conservative Political Action Conference, he would be emceeing the Oscars.

Donald Trump has assembled a group of people who know how to, quote, get it done, whatever it is. Now, the left is not gonna be happy with the things they want to get done. And they\'re gonna continue to oppose it even when they benefit from it, they are going to continue to oppose it, unless Trump comes in with massive tax increases when of course the Democrats will sign on for that.

I don\'t hear anything from Trump about tax increases. I hear tax cuts from him. I hear tax reform from him.

The Limbaugh Theorem is the way Obama gets away with no accountability for anything he\'s done is he never was perceived as governing. He was always as an outsider campaigning all the time against powerful forces trying to stop whatever it was he wanted to do.

Ivanka Trump is for climate change. Ivanka is all for single-parent families, and so she\'s as close to liberal as you\'re gonna get in her dad\'s inner circle.

I really think what\'s happening to the American political system is that it has been reduced to a system of self-perpetuation for the people in it. And they view security for themselves as always needing things to be done.

It\'s phenomenal the kind of support Donald Trump has, despite the best efforts to suppress it, and those efforts are being made, I think it\'s profound, the number of people.