Rush Limbaugh Quotes

Whenever you do anything public, you open yourself up to be criticized.

When you get into this line of work, you're in public office, you expect you're gonna have cheap shots taken at you. That's part of the process.

We've had a lot of controversy in our career, and it's never been intentional.

The last thing in the world someone should do is respond to critics. If I did that I'd be neutered by now--I would be in the nearest insane asylum wearing 15 straitjackets. My whole career has been nothing but: "You shouldn't do it that way, you bigot, you sexist, you homophobe, you pig, you right-wing warmonger, you whatever.

And scandal has a way of catching up with those who disregard its power.

To be honest, after all the crap that happened with 'Summer Heights High,' I was like, 'I'm not going to write anything controversial or edgy ever again; I just can't handle the blame.'

I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again... it's funner that way.

If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs.

I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.

I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.

A lot of things which come with a high profile will always be criticised one way or another.

Some of those STINKIN' press people just had to make fun of my decision in joining the show. They also made fun of other choices in my life that I was proud of then and still am now!!!

But I think, if you're in the spotlight, people are going to say bad things, and that's just the way it is.

If you're in the public eye, people are going to take shots at you.

There is nothing worse than a politician that gets defensive and starts attacking the media - and it always looks bad for the politician, because you sign up for this. You live by the sword, you die by the sword.

Frank Williams says I'm nothing but a money-grabber. I can only laugh at that.

Negative press is always going to come out.

Being a public figure, you cannot make everyone happy. Some people will criticise your actions, and I cannot stop expressing my opinion based on that.

When you're a sports figure and people dislike you, they're going to look for the negatives.

I have paid for things that I had done because I have been in the spotlight.

You really have to think a lot before speaking, and the things that are written about you, sometimes you might not like it.

People have a good image of me. It's not these tramps who are going to tarnish my image. They should stop lying to the French people. It annoys me that people talk about 'your image'. My image is great in France. When I'm abroad, I don't even talk about it. But in France it's just these people, these parasites.

Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say.

For every action there’s a reaction. And also, for every action there’s an equal and opposite criticism.

If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.