Rush Limbaugh Quotes

We have to bring back that Reagan optimism.

In 1980, a nation in need of change selected Ronald Reagan to restore the shine to a tarnished America.

Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.'

I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.

We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope.

The United States of America - once great, grand and free - is on the path to becoming just another country.

I am a Reagan Republican.

Everyone on the Left has a favorite story that allows them to kind of excuse Reagan, explain away Reagan, say he was dumb, but unless we reckon with that kind of emotional intelligence and his ability to kind of speak to the aspirations of the American people, the less liberals are going to be able to understand the soul of his appeal.

Don't worry, America. We survived Jimmy Carter, and we will survive Barack Obama. Only one questions remains... who is the next Ronald Reagan?

It's time for conservative Americans to do what Reagan did.

It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.

The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America.

Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the best, the city on the hill. In fact the great American task is self-scrutiny.

I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... a large Arctic region covered with ice.

The Republican Party has moved substantially to the right of where Reagan was.

The problem with some of our noisier exponents of 'American exceptionalism' is that they lack Reagan's moral maturity.

I would consider myself a Reagan Republican.

I really couldn't be more excited about the opportunity that we have with the new president to really turn this country around and get the economy moving again and have America standing tall again, home and abroad, to make America great again.

I really couldn't be more excited about the opportunity that we have with this new president [Donald Trump] to really turn this country around and get the economy moving again and have America standing tall again, home and abroad, to make America great again.

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

It is easy for Americans to forget a simple fact that is very clear to the people around the world that yearn to live in this country: America is the best country in the entire damn world! It deserves to be made great again, because America is, in the words of President Ronald Reagan, 'the last best hope of mankind.'

The life of a WWE superstar is awesome, but I want my kids to have a life balanced by more traditional ideas about what our life and our country used to be. And still can be if we want it to be.

The future of the Republican Party should be tapping into... the feeling of belonging and meaning and pride that comes with being part of this whole 'America First' movement.

In more tangible terms, the pumpkin spice latte shares many of the qualities that endear conservative politicians to their supporters and arouse disgust in their opponents. It's blunt, common, and unapologetically American.

America's an awesome country, man. Everybody knows that.