Rush Limbaugh Quotes

… mingling of racism and communist fears won votes.

It's the last best trick of a losing Democrat, is to accuse the Republicans of racism.

I think that [Donald] Trump is frankly a bigot. He has a racist history.

[Donald Trump] has really started his political activity based on this racist lie that our first black president was not an American citizen. There was absolutely no evidence for it, but he persisted, he persisted year after year, because some of his supporters, people that he was trying to bring into his fold, apparently believed it or wanted to believe it.

The [political] parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

Race baiting is the meanest species of politics.

The White House is another world. Expediency is everything.

Politics, as an end in itself, is a poor business to be in.

Politics is having one foot in a fire and using the other foot to keep off the people who are trying to push you the rest of the way in.

A politician rises on the backs of his friends ... but it is through his enemies he will have to govern afterwards.

We cost the Democratic party the opportunity to demagogue the issue of race forever. And I am damn proud of that.

They are lovely people. All the political movements I’ve been associated with have consisted of lovely people. But what a successful political movement needs is not lovely people. Give me a mean son-of-a-bitch like Lew Atwater or Karl Rove. The Drug Reform people a lovely, stoned hippies.

The reason I lost the Governor’s race to Patterson is that I was out niggered. No one is ever going to out nigger me again.

Anyone who gets to the top in politics is a control freak.

There is something wrong with the way in which we make our decisions. The Government listen too much to the pollsters and the party managers. The trouble is that they are not even very good at politics, and they are entering too much into policy decisions. As a result, there is too much short-termism, too much reacting to events, and not enough shaping of events. We give the impression of being in office but not in power. Far too many important decisions are made for 36 hours' publicity.

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.

Of course there's always been a paranoid fringe in our politics, steeped in racial resentment. But it's never had the nominee of a major party stoking it, encouraging it, and giving it a national megaphone. Until now.

Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.

I don't have a racist bone in my body.

When you are in the government, you have to demonise your opposition.

The Democrats' obsession with the Kochs as a political target is, indeed, additional evidence of a truly Nixonian approach to politics.

Donald Trump is either a racist or peddling to it, and both are frankly unacceptable and make him unfit to be president of the United States.

Politics is far more complex and difficult than other professions, as it involves takeover of your own personal life.

I think Donald Trump might be racist.