Rush Limbaugh

“The way the Democrats go about seeking equality is to lower people at the top.”

“You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.”

“Health care's like any other product or service: if the consumer is in charge of spending his money on it, then the market will make sure that it is affordable.”

“The Founding Fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want their freedom. They were special people in addition to what their natural yearnings were.”

“If you're healthy, if you don't get sick much, if you don't go to the doctor much or use your health insurance much, you are a genetic lottery winner. It has nothing to do with the way you live, nothing to do with doing the right things. It's just sheer luck, and you are gonna pay for that.”

“You know how old I am? I'm so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. That's how old I am.”

“Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism.”

“Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.”

“You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.”

“Capitalism is always evaluated against dreams. Utopia is a dream. It doesn't exist.”

“Young people have this almost romantic attachment to civil rights, liberties, emancipating people from oppression, etc. The idea that such oppression exists in this country offends me, but it's able to be pushed and sold because education in this country is so woefully incompetent and inept.”

“No matter what else is going on, Christmas is my all-time favorite period in the year. It has a positive effect on me like very little else does, seasonally, that is.”

“The attitude of the Democrat Party is that wherever there are Republicans they are so bad, they are so discriminatory, they are so racist, they're so bigoted, they're just such reprobates that we can't afford to let them have any say whatsoever in what's happening.”

“The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.”

“There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.”

“George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant.”

“The left puts a lot of faith in a lot of people in the past that were dismal failures that they think are the greatest people who ever lived.”

“I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.”

“Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.”

“Character matters; leadership descends from character.”