Rush Limbaugh Quotes

Political vitriol is a familiar enough characteristic of American history.

every man who takes a part in politics, especially in times when parties run high, must expect to be abused; they must bear it; and their friends must learn to bear it for them.

In Michelle Obama attack on Donald Trump, she never mentioned Trump's name, but she made reference to the fact that this is much more important than just responding in 140 characters. And in the process she maligned the whole concept of Twitter, not just Trump.

Look at those Republican [Presidential Primary Nomination] debates. I feel embarrassed as an American when I hear them orate.

The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary. This is because, in party politics as in other matters, it is the party membership that dictates the language, and the membership relinquishes the ideas it has been given more readily than the words it has learned..

People really don’t care if politicians attack each other with untrue stories. They figure if you don’t want to get hurt, you shouldn’t have filed for office. They figure whatever happens to us, our lives will be better than theirs.

Newt Gingrich developed a whole vocabulary of polarization in order to get Republican candidates elected.

Democrats hate success.

I wish the American public wasn't so stupid if they realized that half the people on television make a living just to insult the other party.

Of course the Liberal Democrats are going to say things to try and get attention - but I don't think the country is paying much attention.

Even if Donald Trump's successful, it's the beginning of the end if this rhetoric persists in the Republican Party.

Elected officials need to stop with the name calling and hateful statements.

Sometimes a politician gets up and talks about British values and what we think that means, and we can be knocked down quite harshly, but I don't think we should be. I think we should be able to talk about British values and about immigration without people saying, 'Oh, you're just being like a crazed other party.'

Donald Trump's tweets attract ridicule from some. But clearly they communicate effectively with his millions of supporters.

The Obama administration has a nasty habit of equating basic conservative values with terrorism.

You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic - you name it.

I still maintain that you cannot treat [Donald] Trump, analyze Trump, destroy Trump the way politics says you destroy people that are running for office. I don't think the standard, ordinary operating procedures work.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

I think the worst thing [Donald Trump]did was the tweet the other night about illegal votes.

I've heard a lot of nasty rhetoric about the president. We're going to kick your rear end out of the White House and stuff. That's just not the way I behave.

Even as a supporter of Roe v. Wade, I am compelled to acknowledge that the language both sides use on this subject can be unfortunately misleading and unconstructive.... Everyone is worse off for it.

Republicans are obsessed with abortion...if they really wanted to protect the weakest, most helpless people, wouldn't they protect the Democrats?

Hillary Clinton is a bigot.

I understand that that's the theory of the case for [Donald] Trump supporters and it's what Donald Trump says, and it's possible that that is actually the case.

Every time [Rand Paul] opens his mouth, it gets a little crazier. Today he angrily demanded that the liberal media stop quoting him in context.