Rush Limbaugh Quotes

When it comes to Iran, we must not accept Obama's inconsistencies and weakness.

Iran would do well to look at the calendar and realize there's a new president in the Oval Office. And Iran would do well not to test the resolve of this new president [Donald Trump].

As you know, we don't have relationships with Iran. I mean, that's - ever since the late '70s, we have no contacts with them, and we've totally sanctioned them. In other words, there's no sanctions - you can't - we're out of sanctions.

The United States is going to continue to punish Iran because of its defiance.

Please don't suggest that I think we normalize relations with Tehran tomorrow. We don't. But I would like to see us move forward, and hopefully some day that will happen.

Another mess I inherited, and we have imposed new sanctions on the nation of Iran who has totally taken advantage of our previous administration, and they're the world's top sponsor of terrorism, and we're not going to stop until that problem is properly solved, and it's not properly solved now.

For the first time since 1979, we are talking to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Obama says talking to him is probably pointless, but it's a hell of a relief from Mitch McConnell.

I do think it's fair to say that there are times when President Obama has not been engaged enough with the Middle East.

I have never agreed with President Bush's argument regarding the axis of evil. Unfortunately, fundamentalists in Iran have used this as an excuse to brand us as allies of Mr. Bush.

Once in 1979, [Zbigniew] Brzezinski gave an important slogan: "Bye-bye PLO." After two months, I was in Tehran saying to him: "Bye-bye Brzezinski." Who can imagine that America will lose one of its strongest bases?

I had differences of opinion with President Obama and most well-known, of course, is Iran.

Who said that think we should normalize relations with Iran tomorrow? I never said that. I think we should move forward as quickly as we can.

Both Bibi and Obama realize that they are going to have to face the problem of Iran together.

During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.

The U.S. engages with North Korea, so I don't see why they can't engage with Iran.

If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians?

I think that the president of Iran has the authority wherever which - where - wherever the national interests of the country are involved and, when it is necessary and expedient and required to speak and talk with others in order to promote the rights of its nation, that the president can take that initiative.

The reason that Americans have not been able to see the great strategic benefit that could accrue from a closer relationship with Iran is emotion.

Hostility toward Iran may not be the silliest of all American foreign policies - that would probably be the continuing trade embargo of Cuba - but it is undoubtedly the most self-defeating.

The way you change foreign policy is by raising the domestic political cost of the policy.

The first thing a diplomat has to do is understand the domestic politics of foreign states.

The Republics of Colombia, of Mexico, and of Central America have already deputed plenipotentiaries to … a meeting, and they have invited the United States to be also represented there by their ministers. The invitation has been accepted, and ministers on the part of the United States will be commissioned to attend at those deliberations, and to take part in them so far as may be compatible with that neutrality from which it is neither our intention nor the desire of the other American States that we should depart.

The Iranians are not part of the “axis of Evil”. They are part of the axis of Medieval.

People think that it only takes an American decision to solve this or that problem [in foreign affairs].

Two-thirds of the American people realize just how bad the nuclear deal is with Iran.