Rush Limbaugh Quotes

I've always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant, and now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, it's representing the Left.

A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both.

There's something about Barack Obama that induces Americans to imagine what they cannot see. The Right envisions a vile socialist, while many on the Left picture an inspired liberal, politically restrained in his first term but now free to pursue his true beliefs.

The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left can take itself a little too seriously as well.

Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.

Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.

Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!

Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.

The left hand of the right wing.

The field of politics always presents the same struggle. There are the Right and the Left, and in the middle is the Swamp. The Swamp is made up of know-nothings, of them who are without ideas, of them who are always with the majority.

We don't really have elections; we fight crusades. Each side usually believes that it, and it alone, represents the true faith.

The people are fed up with politics and partisanship.

There are only two kinds of politics. They are not radical or reactionary, or conservative and liberal, or even Democratic and Republican. There are only the politics of fear and the politics of trust.

The one thing we ought to worry about is the propensity of this country to overreact, and to engage in cycles of bitterness.

All political movements are like this — we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.

There’s too much orthodoxy in the political process today.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the middle.

… the politically engaged will tend also to be the most closed-minded.

The struggle between right and left rips us apart.

My own students say they don't trust anyone who voted for Trump. How can you have a democracy with that?

The arrogance of the Left always fascinates me.

If you're going to talk about politics, then there are going to be folks who are with you and folks that are against you.

Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.