Rush Limbaugh Quotes

There used to be a civility. Today, members of Congress would rather destroy another member than compromise.

When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.

The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left can take itself a little too seriously as well.

It is uncomfortable seeing how very divisive politics has become.

I've had problems with the Republican establishment in the past.

I think the attitude needs to be: We need to defeat Liberals, defeat them, defeat them. Not accommodate them. Not try to persuade them. If they come along of their own volition, fine. We accept them. But they are the epitome of bigotry and prejudice.

I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for.

We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who don't recognize common ground even when they're standing on it.

The problem we've got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.

We did not seek ideological confrontation.

I mean, the country is deeply divided. There is 35 percent of the people who are Tea Partiers or more in some of those states. So it's probably going to be a difficult year, but there's nothing that I think anyone can do about it.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

Obama hasn't been divisive just because his policies are so unpopular, though that's a large part of it.

Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

The president said that he would unite this country, that he was a uniter, not a divider. Have you ever seen America more divided? Have you ever seen Washington more divided?

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Politics is a highly tribal business.

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

I've never seen Washington as divided as we are right now.

The press has a tendency to focus on what politicians disagree on.

By definition, politics is, or ought to be, division.

There cannot be a greater Judgment befall a Country than such a dreadful Spirit of Division as rends a Government into two distinct People, and makes them greater Strangers and more adverse to one another, than if they were actually two different Nations.

In politics you win by division.

We are fond of distinctions; we place ourselves in opposition, and quarrel under the denominations of faction and party, without any material subject of controversy.

Pat Buchanan likes to say we're in a culture war. The Civil War was a culture war, and brothers killed brothers. I wonder if they avoided dinner conversation about politics. What if this culture war turned into a real war? I'd look back on that dinner and wish that I'd ordered a side of argument