Rush Limbaugh Quotes

Politics is the business of managing perceptions.

Nobody understood how to use television for his own purposes better than Nixon, despite his poor showing against John F. Kennedy in the televised presidential debate.

Hillary's [Clinton] been doing a good job of portraying [Donald] Trump as unqualified, not the right temperament.

It's the same thing he said a few months ago when he refrained from bringing up Bill's [Clinton] affairs and all the women. Even though Hillary [Clinton] was blasting him for being a sexist and so forth, [Donald] Trump refrained from bringing up Bill.

I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

I understand the process of politics and the game of television.

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

We’re going to sell Jack like soap flakes. There are no accidents in politics.

It’s the [political] consultants’ job to take who the person is—their fixed characteristics—and leverage it.

One thing that is fairly undeniable about Trump - love him or loathe him - is his understanding of how to manipulate the media and to perpetuate a symbiotic relationship with the press.

Trump was doing very well on a model that made sense, but now, as the campaign has gotten to the end stages, a more traditional campaign has to take place.

The big story today, Barack Obama was accused of insulting Sarah Palin when he criticized Republican policies by saying, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. Political experts say that if Obama keeps insulting Palin, he could lose the election and win a job at MSNBC.

The whole celebrity thing didn't work for Hillary Clinton. She tried that in her campaign and it failed.

I thought we would be concerned if he knew how to stay on message, if [Donald] Trump knew how to make the most of an argument against Secretary [Hillary] Clinton, by using some of the things that have been put on the news.

For better or worse, a lot of people's images are based on the first things that are written about them. You can't control what people write about you, so - good or bad - I have never lost sleep about it.

It's so much easier to do press if you take positions that the press likes than to take conservative Republican positions.

The Kerry campaign was a difficult one to be involved with, it is a real juggling act to set the tone and pace of these things accurately.

If you're a Republican politician and you're seeing this guy [Donald Trump] saying crazy stuff and going up in the polls, what are you going to say, you're going to say equally crazy or maybe a little less crazy stuff.

Never say anything in a national campaign that anyone might remember.

I do think Hillary Clinton should have pivoted and say, I am change, I am change, because people do want some change.

The reality is [Donald] Trump is just better at this game than they are. Blaming the media may be a convenient foil, but the reality is, he's played the free media game better than they have. He has used the personal attack meme against them and literally created memes about them. They need to figure out how to play this game.

For the Democrats, they're trying to avoid having the [Ben] Sanders- [Hillary] Clinton debate over and over again. But, to some degree, they're sentenced to that debate.

Hillary Clinton says one thing herself, but she has other people who are floating her plans.

They have to put Trump on every program, spewing his crazy ideas, because his poll numbers are so high. And his poll numbers are so high because they put him on every program, spewing his crazy ideas.

The only thing Hillary Clinton has going for herself is the press, without the press, she is absolutely zero.