Rush Limbaugh Quotes

When you lose power, then all of a sudden, the press are lions. When you have power, the press are lambs.

Yes, Barack Obama had his clashes with the press. I witnessed those first-hand covering the second term of his administration. But we did not have Barack Obama on almost a weekly basis referring to the press as the enemy of the people and accusing reporters of treason and calling legitimate stories fake news.

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.

If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press.

I respect the press. The press and the media are a very useful watchdog to check the power of the government.

The chief danger which threatens the influence and honor of the press is the tendency of its liberty to degenerate into license.

Past occurrences have generally shown that there hasn’t been satisfaction from politicians in the manner they were covered [by the press.]

The media is like the terrain and weather. It is a fact; it's nothing you can change. You have to learn to deal with it. And it isn't bad or good, it's just there. I don't think we should put limits on the press, unless it's for security reasons or for reasons of risk in the case of an operation. We value freedom of the press. It's something we are fighting for. It's part of the constitutional rights that we swear our allegiance to. We just have to accept it and learn to deal with it in a right way, and give and take.

There is a power in our land, irresponsible, corrupt and malicious—‘the press,’ which has created the intense feelings of hostility that has arrayed the two parts of the country against each other, which must be curbed and brought within the just limits of reason and law, before we can have peace in America. We can deal with armies who have a visible and tangible existence, but it will require tact and skill and courage to clip the wings of this public enemy.

I have tried to write about this matter without any improper bias, but of course we are all cowards about newspapers who tyrannize over us all.

No one today in Washington doubts the superior firepower of the media over that of the executive branch.

The Republicans ought to be nowhere near trying to help Obama save his bacon. But they don't think that's what they're doing, I'm convinced. You talk about trauma and the need for therapy, I really think that the Republicans have been genuinely psychologically traumatized by decades of media criticism.

When I was at MSNBC, I had issues with the Obama administration. I got told by the person who runs MSNBC... that Washington was not happy with my tone.

The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests.

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.

I've always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed.

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character.

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

The media cause more problems than they do good.

As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down.