Rush Limbaugh Quotes

Young people have been educated and raised to believe that that aspect of our history disqualifies America from ever being anything that you can justify, from ever being anything great, from ever being anything with any goodness in it, that the United States is forever blemished.

The left think they've got a monopoly on this silly idea that we are a nation of immigrants, America's greatness is traceable to its immigrants. I'm sorry. I don't buy that as a stand-alone idea anyway because really what they're trying to say with that is that America's greatness is due to America's diversity, and that has not a thing to do with it. American Greatness is because of the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and our country.

Diversity hasn't a thing to do with why this country is great. Diversity is not a factor in any way when defining or explaining America's greatness.

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism…. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

Americans generally regard themselves as belonging to an exceptional nation. And in terms of living in a religiously tolerant and enormously diverse country, Americans can certainly take some justified pride.

In other countries, being from somewhere else is celebrated. But not in America.

Every generation in America has faced the same question, do we we want America to be special? Or do we just want America to be another country? The time has come again.

There's a distinct American culture that evolved from the United States founding, and that is what made America great, is what allowed the human being to become.

We have a President, perhaps for the very first time since the founding of our republic, who doesn't appear to believe that America is the greatest earthly force for good the world has ever known.

I believe we can seize this future together, because we are not as divided as our politics suggests. [...] We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions. [...] We are and forever will be the United States of America. [...] We will continue our journey forward and remind the world just why it is that we live in the greatest nation on Earth.

I have never lost faith in America's essential goodness and greatness.

I really believe that even with all of our problems, we're still the best nation in the world. The idea of the United States is why millions of people want to come here every year. The reality is sometimes different, and we certainly have many things to fix, but I really believe that we have in our national DNA the ability to be a great nation that leads the way to progress.

We all need to rededicate ourselves to making America great and making it a more perfect union.

I believe that America is the indispensable nation of the world. Just the creation of this nation itself was a miracle.

Barack Obama has said he doesn't believe in American leadership or America winning - he is wrong. America can win again and we will win again.

America is the greatest country on Earth. But because of some of the mistakes that have been made, we, I think, are going to have a lot of work to do in the next administration to restore that sense that America is that shining beacon on a hill.

A lot of liberals don't believe in American exceptionalism, but it doesn't mean they don't love America.

I love America. It's got potential to be great again. But, really, it's not great right now.

We are not obligated to open our borders and let America be dissolved to nothing simply because it's the greatest on earth and that's unfair.

If you elect me president, we will have a president that believes America is the greatest country in the world and we will have a president that acts like it.

What makes America exceptional are the bonds that hold together the most diverse nation on earth.

... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

Would a serious country so completely lose perspective on its own past that it would entertain the idea that the nation was founded on slavery, rather than on the ideals that have made it a beacon to the rest of the world? And would a serious country think it appropriate to teach its children that the nation’s past is best understood as a parade of horrors, to which the most appropriate response is not pride but lacerating shame? … Nobody wants an account of the American past that is sanitized. We are all too aware of our many faults, and most of us understand the importance of owning up to them. But what we have wanted and needed instead is an account that places those faults in proper perspective—that understands them in much the same way that we understand every flawed but admirable person we have ever known and loved. We need to become a serious country again. And to do that, we need to believe in ourselves again, believe in the reason we have been placed here, as a land of hope for a world that needs hope more than ever. We need to understand that a world without America will be immeasurably diminished, both in material and spiritual terms, and that we have no choice but to live up to the responsibilities that come with our many blessings. Our history can be an enormous resource in that endeavor. The work will not be easy. … But it will be much harder to live with ourselves, and with the rebuke of the future, should we shrink from the challenge. And once we understand what is at stake, we may feel a certain exhilaration that comes of knowing what is being demanded of us.

One thing that America is objectively exceptional at is overreacting whenever anyone accuses them of not being exceptional.