Rush Limbaugh Quotes

Our only hope for America is that every conservative takes upon him or herself the project of learning what American and conservative values are, coming to understand what leftism stands for, and learning how to make the case for those values to women, young people, blacks and Hispanics.

Limbaugh can rightly be said to be the greatest populist expositor of conservatism in America since Reagan, and the link between the Reagan generation and the so-called Rush Babies.

I wonder if these people today would think Reagan was a Reagan conservative.

I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.

In the early 1970s in Washington, a small group of young conservative activists came together to try and change American politics. They called themselves the New Right, and they were convinced that unless they did something drastic, the liberals and the left-wingers in America were going to take over the country.

The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.

I'm looking for a president that'll be like a Ronald Reagan to a Jimmy Carter.

Ted Cruz is not the official spokesman for American conservatism. If you want somebody who has been out there, who has offered an alternative - the person who offered an alternative, for example, is... Paul Ryan.

I'm as conservative as they come.

Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label.

And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

Liberalism is but childishness, which is easily brought to reason; but revolution is a force, and one must know how to use it.

The ur-conservatives of the 1950s - William F. Buckley Jr., Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan and all the rest - were revolting not against a liberal administration but against the moderate conservatism of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

As an ideology - and certainly as a political identity - conservatism is less popular than the very principles and values it stands for.

Some want to rebrand the GOP, but they will never rebrand conservatives.

Here's one measure of the man and the scope of his achievement: No serious historian will be able to write about 20th-century America without discussing Bill Buckley. Before Buckley, there was no conservative movement. After Buckley, there was Ronald Reagan.

What happened to the America we grew up in, the America of Truman, Ike, JFK and Reagan?

The neoconservatives of the 1970s, former liberals who became Nixon or Reagan backers, eventually accepted the 'neocon' description instead of calling themselves 'The Real New Deal Democrats' forever.

Movement Conservatism was a fringe force from the 1950s until the 1980s, when voters elected Movement Conservative Ronald Reagan to the White House. But even then, their control of the Republican Party was not a given.

I registered as a Republican when I turned 18 because of Ronald Reagan - he was the president at the time; I admired what he stood for. I respected him.

I'm trying to uphold what was true about conservatism. I consider myself a Reagan conservative.

Ronald Reagan helped me become a Republican.

As someone who has spent much of my life identifying as a conservative, I can't stand what American conservatism has become.

I became a Republican, before I knew what a Republican even was, because of Ronald Reagan.