Media Personality Archives - Pictorial Quotes

Collective solutions to individual problems is very seductive. It’s how Obama gets elected, by the way.

Rush Limbaugh

I had to learn early on that where conservatives are concerned, the truth about them is the last thing anybody wants to report. It’s the lies and distortions, the mischaracterizations, the character assassinations, that people want to report.

Rush Limbaugh

Everybody wants to be loved by everybody, and they’ll do everything they can to be loved, including not be who they really are, from person to person.

Rush Limbaugh

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.

Rush Limbaugh

You know when people start talking about freedom they have to be old. They gotta be old-fashioned and really out of touch. Freedom? Well, what’s that? Who needs any of that?

Rush Limbaugh

I live in Realville, and my problem is that I’m governed by logic. And some of the claims that are made by people on the left just don’t hold up.

Rush Limbaugh

The American dream has now morphed into an expectation. And if it isn’t provided, or if it doesn’t happen, then people feel cheated.

Rush Limbaugh

If you really want to get rid of the problems in the NFL, put Obama in charge of it: in a few months it will be so deep in debt it will have to go out of business – no more concussions.

Rush Limbaugh

Great presidents don’t just fight good fights – they win them.

Rush Limbaugh

It’s impossible for a Democrat to be a failure. It’s impossible for a Democrat to be a reprobate. It’s impossible for a Democrat to be a mess. It just isn’t possible, as far as the mind-set of the media is concerned.

Rush Limbaugh

The Constitution is constant. There’s not one elected official who has the power to change it. There is a way to amend the Constitution, and the Constitution spells out the procedures that must be taken to change it. Presidents cannot. Now, I know this is gonna shock many of you in the low-information community.

Rush Limbaugh

When you don’t behave the way liberals think you should, their effort and their intention to control you compounds.

Rush Limbaugh

I never try to get noticed. It just happens. I never try.

Rush Limbaugh

There are many lessons people can learn about the left. One of the key lessons is they never give anything up. Once they begin a quest, they don’t stop until they’ve got it. The other thing that you need to learn is, they’re never happy even after they succeed. They are never happy because there can never be enough to satisfy them.

Rush Limbaugh

Unions are the result of profit seekers. Unions are the way the average guy gets even with evil corporateers. The unions are godsends. The unions have a special status, because they represent the rising up of the average man against the evil corporateers and profiteers.

Rush Limbaugh

I say what I mean. I don’t speak in code. That’s why I am a star and ace communicator.

Rush Limbaugh

The truth of anything doesn’t matter anymore. What’s right doesn’t matter. What makes economic common sense doesn’t matter. I’m blue in the face over it.

Rush Limbaugh

There’s nobody who cares more about you than you, and there’s nobody better equipped to take care of you than you.

Rush Limbaugh

It doesn’t benefit me to lie to people. They’re eventually going to find out the truth, and then where am I? That’s the problem with liberalism and socialism, by the way: it has to be propped up by lies.

Rush Limbaugh

If you get rich in the name of the poor, fine and dandy. The problem is when you earn it. If you earn the money in the private sector by starting a business and hiring a lot of people, that’s when you become the enemy.

Rush Limbaugh

Human nature fascinates me.

Rush Limbaugh

I can’t figure Twitter out. The way Twitter is formatted, I can’t tell who is saying something and who’s replying to something. I don’t know who the tweeter is and who’s responding to the twit.

Rush Limbaugh

A United States collapse would be much different than a Greece collapse. Greece can collapse, and there’s a ripple. We collapse, and the world feels it.

Rush Limbaugh

Folks, just a few minutes of my voice can change a life.

Rush Limbaugh

The left has total control over the public education system, all the way up to the university level. It’s something they own, and it’s going to have to change.

Rush Limbaugh

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.

Rush Limbaugh

Liberalism has consequences. It has never worked, folks! It has never worked. And it has never fulfilled its promise.

Rush Limbaugh

We keep waiting for the American people to wake up, and they keep hitting the snooze bar. But something, folks, someday, will wake them up. Of that I’m confident.

Rush Limbaugh

To somebody like Obama, substantive opposition is not tolerable. The objective is to eliminate all opposition – be it a political party, be it media, or what have you.

Rush Limbaugh

I’ve given up on being accurately portrayed in the media.

Rush Limbaugh

I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don’t want to be wrong. There’s nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.

Rush Limbaugh

I’m not afraid of having an agenda. I do have an agenda. It’s a positive agenda.

Rush Limbaugh

I can’t tell you the number of times in high school I was allowed to be disappointed for not making the grade; it’s a part of life. So the young students who are being taught by radical leftists in this country today are going to end up growing up in a world for which they are totally unprepared and unequipped.

Rush Limbaugh

All I do is convert liberals to conservatism. That’s what I do, and that’s why they don’t like me.

Rush Limbaugh

Freedom without virtue isn’t freedom – it will eventually destroy a society.

Rush Limbaugh

I will be the first to admit that getting votes and getting an audience are two different things. For example, a politician really can’t be elected if he’s hated by half the people. A talk show host, however, can be an overwhelming national phenomenon while being hated by half the people.

Rush Limbaugh

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.

Rush Limbaugh

I am opposed to Obama’s efforts to destroy the American economy. I’m opposed to Obama’s efforts to so-called fix the health care system. I’m opposed to the way Obama wants to go about fixing unemployment.

Rush Limbaugh

We’re throwing money down a rat hole drain of public education! We lead the world in public education spending. We lead the world in getting the least for it.

Rush Limbaugh

Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher did more to liberate people by defeating the Soviet Union and freeing eastern Europe than the Obamas, the Clintons, and Kerrys of this world ever have. They were all on the wrong side of that debate.

Rush Limbaugh

Liberals sit from this lofty perch of pomposity, but they are the champions of ignorance. They don’t know what they’re talking about.

Rush Limbaugh

As a professional broadcaster, I can tell you that over the course of my career, there is an adage: don’t ever apologize.

Rush Limbaugh

Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side’s claims.

Rush Limbaugh

The thought that so many people get their news from social media really is scary.

Rush Limbaugh

The media is a like any other group of people. Their universe is all that matters.

Rush Limbaugh

I’ve had so many people tell me that they are shocked that AM radio still even exists with all the different listening options.

Rush Limbaugh

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

Rush Limbaugh

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.

Rush Limbaugh

I’m whispering so that the media doesn’t hear me.

Rush Limbaugh

Real prosperity comes from everybody in the country working together in a growth mode. Real prosperity comes as a result of people’s own initiative and efforts and so forth. Prosperity, if it comes from the government, is not prosperity. It’s an existence or a subsistence or whatever, but it isn’t prosperity.

Rush Limbaugh

Obamacare won’t just bankrupt the country. It may bankrupt small businesses. It may bankrupt individuals.

Rush Limbaugh

Why is freedom such a hard sell? That’s the question. In this country, why has the idea of individual liberty and responsibility become such a hard sell? That’s something I never thought would happen here.

Rush Limbaugh

I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this.

Rush Limbaugh

The Republicans have bought into the idea that people hate them because they’re opposed to everything.

Rush Limbaugh

I never open the newspaper, never. I never go to a website; I never turn on the T.V. hoping to find something I can attack. It isn’t what I do. I defend.

Rush Limbaugh

Republicans and Democrats are obsessed with making sure that illegal aliens are granted citizenship. The American people are not. They’re concerned about jobs, the economy, debt. They’re concerned about a plundering country. They’re concerned about a decaying, dying country.

Rush Limbaugh

Life is busy. There are daily concerns and obligations that have to be met, and to take time to think about how precious and special a human life is that you only get one, and that every wasted minute is lost. You can’t get it back.

Rush Limbaugh

Obama isn’t just too big to fail. He’s too big to know. Obama is so vital to the country and to the world, he must be kept out of the loop in order to save him from his failed presidency.

Rush Limbaugh

Liberals want the government to get bigger, and they want you to drive smaller cars, and they want to dictate the way you live.

Rush Limbaugh

Scandals never stop an administration unless the media wants them to stop an administration, which means that no scandal is ever gonna stop Obama.

Rush Limbaugh

The Limbaugh Theorem was not about me giving me credit for something. It was simply sharing with you when the light went off.

Rush Limbaugh

Money is the fuel that makes political victory possible. Sadly, folks, in many cases it’s more important than ideas. And this is what turns off so many people to politics.

Rush Limbaugh

I don’t think it is deniable: whenever we, I, conservative media, are really interested in something, the mainstream media purposely avoid it.

Rush Limbaugh

Washington is politics! Somehow if people have political objectives, then those objectives are automatically disqualified? If that’s the case, the Democrats have no business being legitimized about anything because everything they do is political.

Rush Limbaugh

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.

Rush Limbaugh

We’re led to believe everybody opposes it and disagrees with political correctness, but yet everybody’s scared to death of it. So who is it? Well, it’s the power structure wherever you happen to be.

Rush Limbaugh

Capitalism is always evaluated against dreams. Utopia is a dream. It doesn’t exist.

Rush Limbaugh

These are people who don’t believe the government can possibly get too big. It’s not possible for it to get too big. It’s not possible for the government to get too powerful. It’s not possible. And yet they are worried at the ‘New York Times’ about what is happening to it under the guidance of the presidency and Mr. Obama.

Rush Limbaugh

I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.

Rush Limbaugh

The cookie-cutter liberal, the standard operating procedure liberal, is really a giant ignoramus. I mean that seriously. They’re really ignorant.

Rush Limbaugh

It was a phenomenon I noticed many years ago. Young people were just giving up every bit of information about themselves they could.

Rush Limbaugh

I want a great country. I want people happy.

Rush Limbaugh

You want at least 5% of the population being serious. That five, 6% of the population carries the rest of the people. You’ve heard that old axiom: 5% of the people pull the wagon; 95% are in it.

Rush Limbaugh

I’m a member of the media. I’m America’s Anchorman.

Rush Limbaugh

You do not have to incriminate yourself. But once you assert your innocence, and once you say you didn’t do anything wrong, you can’t then use the Fifth Amendment to say, ‘I’m not answering questions.’

Rush Limbaugh

Apple is to the United States government what Clarence Thomas was to the civil rights coalition. How dare you get this big sidestepping us.

Rush Limbaugh

Obama’s only attempt to unify the country was to unify people who believe that his enemies need to be eliminated.

Rush Limbaugh

When the United States of America does things in its best interests, it is hated. I’m sorry, that just ticks me off.

Rush Limbaugh

Young people never do have a clue. There are some young people that do, but they’ve always been the exception. They always all grow up at some point. The problem is that they’re all being indoctrinated by stupid leftists.

Rush Limbaugh

I.Q. deficiency. There are some people who are an order of fries short of a Happy Meal, and what is often a characteristic about every one of these people is that they don’t know it. They have no idea how incompetent or stupid they are. It’s the exact opposite. They have the loftiest, highest self-image.

Rush Limbaugh

Obama wants people, as many people as he can get, covered by the government, exchanges, however you want to phrase it, and the more the better, and the sooner, the better, making it impossible to take it away. Meaning, making it impossible to repeal Obamacare.

Rush Limbaugh

When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you’ve got tradition, and on the other hand you’ve got change; in many people’s mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I’m a big tradition guy.

Rush Limbaugh

Liberalism isn’t change. It has to be imposed.

Rush Limbaugh

The Democratic Party does not want anybody to have a photo ID because that would have a very negative impact on cheating! If you require a photo ID, that pretty much shuts out cheating. Well, it doesn’t shut it out. It just makes it harder, and that’s why they don’t want it.

Rush Limbaugh

I sometimes wish I weren’t as logical as I am and I wish I weren’t as smart as I am, because I’d be happy.

Rush Limbaugh

I’ve always believed in the old-fashioned way: When you’ve got scoundrels in office, you vote ’em out.

Rush Limbaugh

There was a time when the United States government earned the trust of its people. There was a time when most people believed that the United States government was protecting them.

Rush Limbaugh

In order for the Constitution to work, you have to have law-abiding people. You have to have people willing to obey the Constitution, willing to follow the law. Obama doesn’t care. He is the law.

Rush Limbaugh

The media believes that what Obama was gonna do when he took over, go dictator immediately, that was what this country needs, finally central government running everything.

Rush Limbaugh

Governments are out of control, irresponsible, never have enough money, never tighten their own belts, and when they are forced to, they always threaten to shut down police departments and teachers and all these things.

Rush Limbaugh

Racial relations in this country are plummeting. Racial strife is rising. All the while, Obama is out there talking about unity and bringing us together.

Rush Limbaugh

The Kennedy lifestyle is something that is looked upon favorably by the elites throughout our culture, both political and social.

Rush Limbaugh

Feminism is liberalism, and look at what it’s doing, look at what it’s promoting, look at what it’s condoning. All the while, we have to live in this lie that there’s some sort of Republican War on Women. We don’t do this to women! We don’t objectify women like this.

Rush Limbaugh

Democrat women lead the way in showing other women how to be stepped on and diminished by men. That’s what they do, for a payoff somewhere down the line.

Rush Limbaugh

I reject most conventional wisdom.

Rush Limbaugh

I think I’m becoming a psychologist in explaining the Republican Party. It’s the only way you can explain ’em. It’s psychological.

Rush Limbaugh

Canada has an immigration policy you might want to emulate. They want more skilled and educated immigrants. In fact, that’s all they take. But, see, since nobody’s watching them, and they’re not a superpower, nobody really cares. So they are allowed to act in their best interests.

Rush Limbaugh

I am the Doctor of Democracy. I am America’s Truth Detector. And as the Doctor of Democracy, the deal you have with your doctor isn’t changing. You get to keep your doctor. You get to keep your plan. You get to keep your station. Nothing’s changing, and it really never was gonna change.

Rush Limbaugh

I want Obama to have to weigh in on Ben Affleck as Batman. It’s about time Obama went to work.

Rush Limbaugh

Everybody assumes I know everything, so they send me these notes sometimes, and I don’t know what they’re talking about.

Rush Limbaugh

We’ve defined decency down now that we look at the entertainment value of it, whether the acting is good, the writing is good, the story is good, no matter the depravity, we’ll watch it.

Rush Limbaugh

People are pursuing happiness, but they’re pursuing things that will never, ever make them happy, and they don’t know that. They’ve got a distorted view of what will make them happy, what happiness is, and it’s based on what they see on television.

Rush Limbaugh

I don’t have an ego that makes me believe the world revolves around me. I am not self-absorbed.

Rush Limbaugh

Standards are declining left and right, and it doesn’t matter. It’s whatever is necessary to prop up Obama.

Rush Limbaugh

The journalists are so devoted to Obama. They are such sycophants that they’re worried about access.

Rush Limbaugh

I do not believe that Obama is smarter than anybody else. I do not believe he has cut a new path and is a politician unlike any we’ve ever seen regarding his intellect. I don’t believe any of this hocus-pocus. I didn’t believe it when they said it about Hillary, Smartest Woman in the World.

Rush Limbaugh

Obamacare can’t work, folks. It just cannot.

Rush Limbaugh

If we can have record high unemployment, record job loss, and just an absolutely anemic economic recovery because of Obama’s policies, and he’s not blamed for it, what makes anybody think he’s gonna get blamed when an insurance company starts doubling their premiums?

Rush Limbaugh

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.

Rush Limbaugh

Ladies and gentlemen, even my own staff challenges me. When I issue edicts, commands, orders, ideas, you would think that there would be overwhelming blanket acquiescence, approval, and support.

Rush Limbaugh

Global warming is a political issue. It is as much a political issue to the left as abortion is. It’s as big a political issue as health care is.

Rush Limbaugh

Being a conservative union member is almost like being an actor in Hollywood: You don’t dare say it, or you might be injured on the job, or you might be laid off, or your family might have something happen to them.

Rush Limbaugh

I’ve had some Democrat African-American leaders tell me they’re really not all that comfortable with Obama as the lead at the MLK festivities ’cause he’s not down for the struggle. He does not have that in his roots.

Rush Limbaugh

There’s a reason why young people think what they think. They are taught it. In many cases when they learn at home is erased or countered or overcome.

Rush Limbaugh

There are a lot of Democrats that tell me that they are just distressed over what Obama has done to the health care industry and to jobs. They are afraid to say anything about it because of recriminations, because this regime fights back.

Rush Limbaugh

Barack Obama happens to be the first African-American, and so criticism of him is and always was gonna be racism, and therefore not permitted.

Rush Limbaugh

I can’t give money away to buy listeners. I can’t pay listeners off with phones or food stamps or anything. I can’t come by my audience by buying it.

Rush Limbaugh

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.

Rush Limbaugh

Media does not get everything they want all the time. The Democrats certainly don’t. They don’t win every election, and they don’t win every battle.

Rush Limbaugh

If I wanted to be president, and if I were ever serious about it, the biggest thing I would have going for me is that I’m a conservative.

Rush Limbaugh

Basic Economics 101. It’s the most complicated simple subject there is.

Rush Limbaugh

There isn’t one thing the federal government does that anybody in Big Business would emulate, at least not in the profit sector.

Rush Limbaugh

Conservatism is not the problem. Conservatism is the founding of this country, essentially. Conservatism isn’t even really an ideology. Conservatism is just what is right, proper, decent, and moral. That’s all it is.

Rush Limbaugh

If liberalism discredited itself, Obama woulda never gotten elected, and the New Deal woulda gone by the wayside, and LBJ woulda never gotten the Great Society. Liberalism does not discredit itself. It has to be explained and beaten back.

Rush Limbaugh

Every Republican is on record as saying Obamacare is unacceptable, intolerable, and they’re gonna do everything they could to keep it from happening. But, at the moment of truth, they’re not.

Rush Limbaugh

Sorry to interrupt myself, but it’s the only way I stop talking.

Rush Limbaugh

Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They’re political activists disguised as reporters.

Rush Limbaugh

I wonder if liberal kids call liberal talk shows and ask how to get along in a conservative teacher’s class? No. No. It doesn’t happen, ’cause there’s no thought of getting along.

Rush Limbaugh

If I sound like I’m enjoying myself, it’s not artificial. It’s real.

Rush Limbaugh

Try to always stay focused on the objectives that are possible and the positive – and on having fun outside of the stuff that’s going on in Washington.

Rush Limbaugh

The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low points in it, but I’m not giving up, and I’m not gonna engage in phony pep talks, either.

Rush Limbaugh

The Democrats can engage in the most reprehensible, mean-spirited, vile, vicious verbal attacks known in politics, and they get praised for it.

Rush Limbaugh

Money is the mother’s milk of everything, and it certainly is the mother’s milk of politics.

Rush Limbaugh

Liberals are some of the most arrogant, condescending smart alecks, but they’re just pure ignorant, and they fit the bill of people who have no love and no respect for the founding of this country.

Rush Limbaugh

Obamacare is not about improved health care or cheaper insurance or better treatment or insuring the uninsured, and it never has been about that. It’s about statism. It’s about expanding the government. It’s about control over the population. It is about everything but health care.

Rush Limbaugh

The American people don’t want Obamacare. It has been forced on the American people, despite the fact that Democrats no longer control the House.

Rush Limbaugh

There is no news media. There’s simply a bunch of people on television and in newspapers who are ranking members of the Democrat Party.

Rush Limbaugh

Liberals always exempt themselves from the rules that they impose on others.

Rush Limbaugh

You have to understand the way the liberal looks at something working. Their purpose here is not to provide you health care cheaply, affordably and plentifully. That’s not what this is about to them.

Rush Limbaugh

In the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics. That isn’t happening anymore.

Rush Limbaugh

What is Obamacare doing? It’s destroying the only kind of plans people without insurance ever get. And nobody seems to be noticing except the people who are being canceled and then can’t find a replacement because it’s too expensive.

Rush Limbaugh

One of the biggest challenges we have, folks, is making liberty and freedom cool.

Rush Limbaugh

Journalists should have been the first to tell people what Obamacare would mean to them. They are now the last to figure all of this out.

Rush Limbaugh

There’s a reason people are not going to Obamacare. They find out what it’s gonna cost ’em, and they go somewhere else. And in the process, they’re undermining the very foundation of Obamacare, all of which was predictable.

Rush Limbaugh

I am convinced that, despite what you think of Obama, I don’t think Obama has a person-to-person connection with people. I think people love him because of his race and feel sorry for him, object of sympathy. I think people feel he’s a victim, he portrays himself as a victim of America; he gets sympathy that way.

Rush Limbaugh

Obama’s an angry guy. He’s got a chip on his shoulder.

Rush Limbaugh

Most liberals I know do not consider themselves to even be liberals. They just think of you and me as conservatives, and that means, therefore, we’re odd and we’re kooks and maybe extreme and maybe mean.

Rush Limbaugh

Obama is telling the insurance companies, as a dictator would, what they can and can’t do or what they must or must not do.

Rush Limbaugh

Every aspect of Obamacare is an affront to the very founding of this country.

Rush Limbaugh

Obama might think of himself as one, but he is not a dictator. We are not a banana republic yet. This is not an authoritarian form of government. This is a constitutional republic, and the president doesn’t allow or disallow. The president can’t buy or purchase.

Rush Limbaugh

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.

Rush Limbaugh

The value of money comes from the private sector in the form of price for product, services rendered, what people are willing to pay for something they want or need. That’s where value happens. Government has nothing to do with that.

Rush Limbaugh

The school curriculum today, particularly American history, is a shame.

Rush Limbaugh

If you’re Obama, can you imagine being lectured to about honesty and integrity from a convicted perjurer, Bill Clinton? My gosh, folks, I mean, literally how far has one fallen when that is the case?

Rush Limbaugh

You cannot keep your plan and have Obamacare at the same time. Obamacare, by definition, gets rid of your plan and replaces it with health care run by the federal government.

Rush Limbaugh

Obama is from this group that resents the private sector, resents the capitalistic means of production.

Rush Limbaugh

I never turn on the news over the weekend, short of a nuclear detonation somewhere. I just don’t. I don’t learn anything from it anymore.

Rush Limbaugh

One of the reasons MSNBC is plummeting is that I, not long ago, refused to play any content from them. I figured, why? I mean, it’s genuine depraved partisan politics insanity, genuine extremist radical ignoramuses on that network.

Rush Limbaugh

I hate charts. I just despise ’em.

Rush Limbaugh

To change the media, you’re gonna have to totally throw out every journalism school and get rid of everybody in every newsroom, and then you’re gonna have to change the grade school and middle school and high school curriculum.

Rush Limbaugh

The public school system doesn’t get everybody. Every generation has its rebels.

Rush Limbaugh

It’s impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything, and you’re gonna offend people.

Rush Limbaugh

There are smart people on our side of the aisle who have known as early as I did who Obama was and should have been saying ‘I hope this guy fails’ right along with me. There should have been opposition to this guy all along.

Rush Limbaugh

The president of the United States is a pretty important position, and it’s the ideas and policies that matter to me, not the color of their skin.

Rush Limbaugh

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.

Rush Limbaugh

Most people have this protective view of the presidency. Anybody who holds the office is always gonna get the benefit of the doubt unless the media spends four years destroying them like they did Bush, and with Bush not returning fire.

Rush Limbaugh

The Republican Party, I really believe, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder from years and years of bullying and taunting. The Republican Party is Jonathan Martin. The Democrat Party and the media are Richie Incognito.

Rush Limbaugh

By the way, I don’t mean to pick nits here, but Obama has just ordered the flag at half-mast for 10 days for Mandela. He did not order the flag at half-mast at all for Lady Thatcher.

Rush Limbaugh

Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody.

Rush Limbaugh

I’ve been to the Vatican more than anyplace else outside this country in the world. I am mesmerized by it.

Rush Limbaugh

Obama’s gonna play Santa Claus with the minimum wage. He’s got no successes to brag about. He cannot talk about a robust job market. In fact, the very fact he’s talking about the minimum wage is evidence there is no robust job market.

Rush Limbaugh

It’s amazing when you see something on T.V. for years and then you go and see it in person. It’s perspective is all different.

Rush Limbaugh

One of the reasons that the Senate was structured and founded the way it is, as opposed to the House, it was designed for gridlock. It was designed to stop massive new laws being passed and voted on daily. It was designed to stop the growth of government.

Rush Limbaugh

Obama is not the messiah any longer. He is now your standard, ordinary, everyday politician who lies, who breaks promises, who’s in it for himself, who can’t do anything on his own. He’s not qualified. All of this is becoming known, sadly, too late.

Rush Limbaugh

It’s very rare that you have a liberal run as an unabashed liberal. They have to lie about it. They have to mask who they are. And in order for them to survive and thrive, they have to keep that up.

Rush Limbaugh

Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.

Rush Limbaugh

The media has been trying to protect Obama. The media has been trying to shield Obama. Several in the Republican establishment in the so-called conservative media have even been trying to shield Obama.

Rush Limbaugh

I’m just wondering, folks, if I gave a speech on anti-capitalism, do you think I could be named Person of the Year by ‘TIME Magazine?’

Rush Limbaugh

Obama has now lost his trustworthiness. He has lost any hope of majority support from the American people for his agenda. Obamacare has wiped that out. It really has.

Rush Limbaugh

Obama hasn’t lost his standing because of tricks played by the Republicans. He hasn’t lost his standing because the media’s not fair to him. He hasn’t lost his standing or his approval number because the media spent four years attacking him like they did George W. Bush. This is all on him.

Rush Limbaugh

Obama’s not down for the civil rights struggle, and he certainly wasn’t down for the apartheid struggle, but he’s clearly gonna take advantage of it and insert himself in such a way as to make it look like he is single-handedly responsible for apartheid going by the wayside.

Rush Limbaugh

I tell you, Bono may have a point. South Africa needs a Walmart.

Rush Limbaugh

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.

Rush Limbaugh

There hasn’t been anybody else write a Constitution like Madison. There just hasn’t been, because that person hasn’t existed anywhere but here.

Rush Limbaugh

If you want to know what the biggest thing in your way to an improved standard of living, higher pay, a more rewarding career is: Barack Obama and the Democrat Party and their economic policies. They are the roadblock.

Rush Limbaugh

Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What’s the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth.

Rush Limbaugh

If you compare charitable donations, you name it, religious tithing, giving, Americans trump citizens of the world hands down.

Rush Limbaugh

The number of people, the labor force, has shrunk by nine million human beings since Obama took office.

Rush Limbaugh

None of the people who wrote Obamacare want anything to do with it. None of the people responsible for Obamacare can afford it. They all want subsidies. None of the people that gave us Obamacare have any desire to actually go to HealthCare.gov and sign up. That’s for you and me to have to do.

Rush Limbaugh

Liberals talk about the ‘income inequality’ and the ‘unfairness’ and the disparity of the haves and the have-nots in New York City. Who has been running that city for all this time? Who has created the underclass in this country? It’s the Democrat Party.

Rush Limbaugh

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

Rush Limbaugh

The law exists for a reason. There is a dominant American culture that people used to want to preserve. That’s going by the wayside, too. But if it’s now okay for an illegal alien to practice law in California, then can anybody else who’s broken the law get a law license? And if not, why not?

Rush Limbaugh

Most men would love to be stared at by women. Don’t doubt me on this. And my guess is that most women are actually intrigued by it and have developed techniques and skills for dealing with it. Don’t doubt me.

Rush Limbaugh

A bunch of liberals wanted to outlaw men gazing at women because the gaze was said to objectify women. Sorry, liberals, it can’t be helped among the heterosexual crowd.

Rush Limbaugh

Obamacare is making people divorce so they can afford it. And divorce hurts women and the children, and that is Obamacare and their War on Women.

Rush Limbaugh

The Republican establishment may in fact be so desirous of getting rid of the Tea Party as its base, they may be willing to lose some elections in order to get rid of their base and put up a new base.

Rush Limbaugh

Everybody in life is pursuing money: left, right, charity, nonprofits, everybody’s pursuing money. Everybody wants a raise. Everybody wants to improve their standard of living. Everybody wants to be rich, and especially those that go to Washington.

Rush Limbaugh

In NFL preseason, the coaches don’t use 10% of the playbook. They don’t game plan. They do nothing. They don’t give anything away for the regular season. They try to get everybody safely through it without anybody getting hurt.

Rush Limbaugh

As far as I’m concerned, the people who aren’t paying taxes don’t get to run around claiming that they built everything, that the built the roads and that they built the bridges and so forth.

Rush Limbaugh

For the last five years, we have been presented with the idea that Barack Obama is superhuman. Barack Obama is unlike any of us or anyone else. And he isn’t. In fact, he’s much less achieved and much less accomplished than most who have gotten half as far as he has, and I think maybe what we saw was the best.

Rush Limbaugh

The First Amendment doesn’t give anybody the right to be heard. People don’t have to listen to you.

Rush Limbaugh

What about feeling sorry for those who pay the taxes? Those who are people that no one feels sorry for. They are asked to give and give until they have no more to give. And when they say ‘enough,’ they are called selfish.

Rush Limbaugh

You take a 30-year-old. To him, history began the day he was born. He doesn’t know how cold it was 70 years ago unless he’s told. He doesn’t care. He thinks what’s happening now is either the best or the worst, whatever it is, ever. Everybody thinks that.

Rush Limbaugh

Young people, those who think they’re experts in science, there’s no doubt. They just believe it, and so there has to be an explanation – and whatever man is doing has caused the jet stream to slow down, and that is permitting the polar vortex.

Rush Limbaugh

This Obamacare program has Obama’s name on it. He lied to people for three years about this program. People trusted him. People believed what he told them. They believed that he was going to improve the health care system in this country, and it was going to get cheaper, more affordable, more plentiful.

Rush Limbaugh

Liberals get credit for good intentions, and that’s about it, because everything they do fails.

Rush Limbaugh

The administration is out lying through its teeth about all these people signing up and how great Obamacare is now. Meanwhile, Obama continues to break the law each and every day with executive actions – not even executive orders, executive actions – and proclamations.

Rush Limbaugh

Barack Obama doesn’t think this country should be number one. If it were number 35 it’d be fine with him.

Rush Limbaugh

Reagan won because he was real. He believed in America. He told people he was gonna make it great again coming out of a disastrous four years of Jimmy Carter and Watergate before that.

Rush Limbaugh

The Obama camp, the White House, and the media all condemned Romney before they condemned the attacks. Obama thought it more worthwhile to hit Romney for what he was doing than the terrorists for what they did. Romney got hit first.

Rush Limbaugh

Charity is willingly given from the heart.

Rush Limbaugh

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.

Rush Limbaugh

Even when I think I’m wrong I’m right. I am all-knowing.

Rush Limbaugh

I know it when I don’t know it. Sometimes I know it when I don’t think I know it. I need to trust myself in these moments, these rare moments of self-doubt.

Rush Limbaugh

The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you.

Rush Limbaugh

Let me tell you the polls that count, and those are the polls a couple of weeks before the election. That’s when the pollsters worry about holding onto their credibility. Those are the polls that everybody remembers.

Rush Limbaugh

The welfare state is collapsing all around us. There are people that realize that we can’t go on this way, but I’m not sure how many people realize how close we are to the collapse of the U.S. financial system.

Rush Limbaugh

United States foreign policy, which includes national security, is literally disintegrating before our eyes.

Rush Limbaugh

It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It’s not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy.

Rush Limbaugh

Everything about the left is perception, manipulation, and lies. Everything. Everything is ‘Wag the Dog.’ Everything is a structured deception.

Rush Limbaugh

We are hated because we are free. We are hated because of the idea that is the United States of America. We are hated because of our Constitution.

Rush Limbaugh

Well, the chairman of Federal Reserve just made his move to rescue Barack Obama. We’re gonna have QE3. We’re gonna print some more money.

Rush Limbaugh

Barack Obama, foreign policy wizard. I just have to laugh.

Rush Limbaugh

The Democrats cannot find Romney fingerprints on what’s happening to this country. Every fingerprint is Barack Obama’s, Joe Biden’s, Nancy Pelosi’s, Harry Reid’s, Barney Frank’s, you name it, Eric Holder.

Rush Limbaugh

Who in the world wants to run a country where the new norm is one where there are no jobs?

Rush Limbaugh

That’s the definition of ‘success’ for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.

Rush Limbaugh

Wouldn’t it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League’s?

Rush Limbaugh

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.

Rush Limbaugh

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant – and if you’re gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

Rush Limbaugh

So much value has been lost in the housing market that people are now buying. If there’s any activity in the housing market, it’s because values have plummeted to such depths that the 47% can now afford to live in a government-purchased house, or something like that.

Rush Limbaugh

Look, 85% percent of Democrats think the economy’s fine. What does that tell you about these people?

Rush Limbaugh

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.

Rush Limbaugh

Obama just announced Americans don’t consider themselves victims, or entitled. Actually, the vast majority of Obama supporters believe exactly that. They believe exactly that.

Rush Limbaugh

I have to tell you, every day is a roller coaster.

Rush Limbaugh

I never, ever have seen media this way. It’s almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It’s making themselves look like utter fools. There’s no journalism, there is no media. There’s pure, full-fledged advocacy here.

Rush Limbaugh

Barack Obama’s enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama’s enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take, using the power and the force of the federal government to do it.

Rush Limbaugh

The more dependent you are, the more ignorant you must be, and that’s how they want you.

Rush Limbaugh

Styrofoam and plastic milk jugs are biodegradable! Do you know what isn’t biodegradable? Paper!

Rush Limbaugh

Militant feminists are pro-choice because it’s their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men.

Rush Limbaugh

I prefer to call the most obnoxious feminists what they really are: feminazis. Tom Hazlett, a good friend who is an esteemed and highly regarded professor of economics at the University of California at Davis, coined the term to describe any female who is intolerant of any point of view that challenges militant feminism.

Rush Limbaugh

If Romney would go ideological in explaining Obama, it would help. We gotta stop the, ‘He’s a nice guy’ stuff. Nice guys don’t do what Obama is doing. Nice guys don’t say and do and act the way Obama is saying, doing, and acting.

Rush Limbaugh

There’s such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not being held to them. People’s intentions, if they’re said to be good and honorable, that’s all that matters.

Rush Limbaugh

When a poll is really, really out of whack with what I want to happen, I do have a tendency to disregard it.

Rush Limbaugh

A loyal liberal can get away with anything with other liberals, as long as that loyal liberal is liberal and attacks conservatives left and right, spouts the right words, they get away with anything.

Rush Limbaugh

The way Obama voters and non-Obama voters deal with unemployment are a very different.

Rush Limbaugh

The idea of going back to college scares me, and I didn’t even go. I went to college for one year, two semesters. If you add up the total time, I probably didn’t even go one semester.

Rush Limbaugh

The mainstream media today has the biggest disconnect with its audience that it’s ever, ever had. And as the disconnect grows and as more and more people distrust them, then the media digs in more and more and says you don’t know what you’re talking about, you don’t know how we do our jobs, you don’t know what’s important.

Rush Limbaugh

Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.

Rush Limbaugh

I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world’s problems.

Rush Limbaugh

Police and firefighters are great, but they don’t create wealth. They protect it. That’s crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don’t create the wealth themselves.

Rush Limbaugh

Emotional roller coasters tend to emphasize the lows, tend to be more affected by the low, by the dip in an emotional roller coaster than when you are at the peak.

Rush Limbaugh

Obama and the Democrats are not focused on the moderates. They’re focused on getting their base out, and they’re trying to expand that base by forming sympathetic, empathetic alliances with the downtrodden, and there are a lot of downtrodden because Obama has made them that way via his policies.

Rush Limbaugh

Is it a coincidence that in 1998, Barack Obama talks about a majority coalition of welfare recipients and in 2012 we got a record number of Americans on food stamps while he’s president? I don’t think it’s a coincidence.

Rush Limbaugh

The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff.

Rush Limbaugh

I suppose we’re not supposed to judge people.

Rush Limbaugh

This is a frightening statistic. More people vote in ‘American Idol’ than in any US election.

Rush Limbaugh

That’s what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it’s fair, because people would be the best if they weren’t discriminated against.

Rush Limbaugh

Nationalizing businesses, nationalizing banks, is not a solution for the democratic party, it’s the objective.

Rush Limbaugh

Obama is a statist. He’s an authoritarian. He doesn’t want to govern; he wants to rule.

Rush Limbaugh

Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.

Rush Limbaugh

Obama had the audacity to say, ‘I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.’ Ladies and gentlemen, torture in the United States has always been illegal.

Rush Limbaugh

None of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn’t seen before and already failed at.

Rush Limbaugh

The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.

Rush Limbaugh

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where’s the compromise between life and death – and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there’s nothing wrong with them?

Rush Limbaugh

After the Republican Party did everything that Colin Powell says it needs to do to grow, and nominated the very kind of candidate he wanted in 2008, what did Powell do? He endorsed Obama! So according to the Drive-Bys and David Gergen, Republicans should let somebody who campaigned and voted for Obama, tell us how to build our party.

Rush Limbaugh

When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of millions of American citizens, we don’t need lectures. What we need to do is to confront her with what she said and what it says about her.

Rush Limbaugh

The press has met their Waterloo, and it’s Obama.

Rush Limbaugh

There’s a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.

Rush Limbaugh

Let me tell you who we conservatives are: we love people. When we look out over the United States of America, when we are anywhere, when we see a group of people, such as this or anywhere, we see Americans. We see human beings. We don’t see groups. We don’t see victims.

Rush Limbaugh

We want everybody to succeed. You know why? We want the country to succeed, and for the country to succeed, its people – its individuals – must succeed.

Rush Limbaugh

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.

Rush Limbaugh

We can take this country back. All we need is to nominate the right candidate. It’s no more complicated than that.

Rush Limbaugh

There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that’s the media.

Rush Limbaugh

The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they’re not the enemy. They’re the people that hire you. They’re the people that are going to give you a job.

Rush Limbaugh

The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It’s not change, and it’s not hope.

Rush Limbaugh

So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.

Rush Limbaugh

Government stimulates the democrat party.

Rush Limbaugh

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

Rush Limbaugh

Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats’ new spending doesn’t? Will someone please ask that?

Rush Limbaugh

I don’t need equal time, I am equal time!

Rush Limbaugh

Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.

Rush Limbaugh

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

Rush Limbaugh

The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.

Rush Limbaugh

Football is like life and I know life.

Rush Limbaugh

I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.

Rush Limbaugh

Most people’s historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.

Rush Limbaugh

If you commit a crime, you’re guilty.

Rush Limbaugh

Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.

Rush Limbaugh

The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.

Rush Limbaugh

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Rush Limbaugh

Compassion is no substitute for justice.

Rush Limbaugh

Did you know that the White House drug test is multiple choice?

Rush Limbaugh

You could afford your house without the government if it weren’t for the government.

Rush Limbaugh

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Rush Limbaugh

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

Rush Limbaugh

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

Rush Limbaugh

The last thing they want is a revitalized economy now. I’m not saying the Democrats don’t want a strong economy. Don’t misunderstand. They just don’t want it now.

Rush Limbaugh

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Rush Limbaugh

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old – old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don’t. In both cases we have to DO something.

Rush Limbaugh

Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.

Rush Limbaugh

It’s great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won’t; it’s up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.

Phil McGraw

Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we’re doing. We believe things about ourself.

Phil McGraw

Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I’m not saying that’s bad.

Phil McGraw

As parents we’re not nearly as computer literate as our children are.

Phil McGraw

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

Phil McGraw

I don’t care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program – that emotion will fade.

Phil McGraw

Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.

Phil McGraw

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don’t choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

Phil McGraw

Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they’ll feel confused and lost.

Phil McGraw

Nothing’s funnier to me than laughing at myself.

Phil McGraw

When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that you create together.

Phil McGraw

I’m not a politician.

Phil McGraw

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

Phil McGraw

I just am not good at math.

Phil McGraw

I mean, I’m very, very competitive.

Phil McGraw

Well, I’m not sure what pop psychology is, but I don’t like it.

Phil McGraw

A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.

Phil McGraw

When I was practicing psychology, I used to tell myself if I ever get to where I’m just doing this for the money or I’m just going through the motions, I’ll quit.

Phil McGraw

I tell you, if you’re in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you’re back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you’ve got to keep moving.

Phil McGraw

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you’re not going to get anywhere.

Phil McGraw

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we’re so busy now.

Phil McGraw

I do not believe, even remotely, that you have to have a partner in your life in order to be whole, in order to be complete, in order to be fulfilled. You just don’t have to.

Phil McGraw

Not everybody is some kind of media model.

Phil McGraw

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I’m going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that’s OK.

Phil McGraw

There’s a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There’s a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.

Phil McGraw

God is a loving god.

Phil McGraw

I mean, look, teachers don’t do their job for the money, obviously, because we pay them ridiculously little amounts for what they put in. Most of them come out of their own pocket for materials and things to help the children and all that.

Phil McGraw

Now, my body fat runs around 18 percent, which is normal and, you know, kind of in the middle of normal, actually.

Phil McGraw

Well, let me tell you, if you’re 45, had three children and are post-menopausal, you’re not going to weigh what you did the day you graduated from high school. Get that out of your head. That’s a media-driven ideal that you’re never going to healthfully obtain.

Phil McGraw

What I want people to do is what’s healthy for them.

Phil McGraw

I’ve talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they’re judged. They think they’re unattractive.

Phil McGraw

I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.

Phil McGraw

Life is a full-contact sport, and there’s a score up on the board.

Phil McGraw

If you’ve gone into a marriage and you haven’t been clear about how you’re going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you’ve set yourself up for failure.

Phil McGraw

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you’re dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That’s a normal marriage.

Phil McGraw

Don’t wait until you’re in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.

Phil McGraw

If you’re trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.

Phil McGraw

I think I’ve got the best staff in television.

Phil McGraw

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That’s a horrible existence for people.

Phil McGraw

Parents need to dial in and know what their kids are doing.

Phil McGraw

I have some wonderful friends from the Mideast that are as red, white and blue as anybody you know, that have been harassed, and I think it’s a terrible, terrible thing.

Phil McGraw

You don’t need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.

Phil McGraw

You don’t need a rope to pinch a stranger’s butt.

Phil McGraw

Do you realize that you can’t play the game of life with sweaty palms?

Phil McGraw

It’s hard to see your own face without a mirror.

Phil McGraw

A year from now, you’re gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.

Phil McGraw

If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I’d been gone in two weeks.

Phil McGraw

I’ve learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.

Phil McGraw

I don’t substitute anybody else’s judgment for my own.

Phil McGraw

People are used to being coddled.

Phil McGraw

It’s so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.

Phil McGraw

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

Phil McGraw

Awareness without action is worthless.

Phil McGraw

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.

Phil McGraw

You’re only lonely if you’re not there for you.

Phil McGraw

The most you get is what you ask for.

Phil McGraw

Take it from a guy: If you’re in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You’re going to get to her somehow, some way.

Phil McGraw

There are some sick people in this world.

Phil McGraw

I think you’re running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, ‘Brace yourself honey, here I come!’

Phil McGraw

The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes… men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!

Phil McGraw

Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.

Phil McGraw

I’m embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.

Phil McGraw

I’m one of those that believes you can’t be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

Phil McGraw

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

Phil McGraw

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There’s just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent’s voice to resonate in the children’s ears.

Phil McGraw

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we’re capable of.

Phil McGraw

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you’re living your life doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you’re comfortable with it.

Phil McGraw

My dad used to say, ‘You wouldn’t worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

Phil McGraw

You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.

Phil McGraw

We teach people how to treat us.

Phil McGraw

It’s better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.

Phil McGraw

I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there’s too much guilt.

Phil McGraw

Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God’s way of moving you in another direction.

Oprah Winfrey

With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.

Oprah Winfrey

To me, the money is – it’s certainly a wonderful thing. But it is in direct proportion to how you’re able to bless yourself and bless others with it.

Oprah Winfrey

That’s the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.

Oprah Winfrey

When you forgive somebody, it doesn’t necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.

Oprah Winfrey

Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.

Oprah Winfrey

You’re either humble or you’re not. If you were a jerk before the fame, you just become a jerk with a bigger spotlight. Whoever you are really comes through.

Oprah Winfrey

If you’re constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages – not to mention the myth of Icarus – predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.

Oprah Winfrey

The goal of my shows, my interviews, my business, my philanthropy, all of it, whatever ventures I might pursue, would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me.

Oprah Winfrey

No matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe, it is both possible and, more importantly, it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort.

Oprah Winfrey

Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.

Oprah Winfrey

Even if you flippin’ fries at McDonald’s, if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line.

Oprah Winfrey

When you think about growing and being empowered yourself, it is what you’ve been able to do for other people that leaves you the fullest.

Oprah Winfrey

Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn’t make sense to give it up.

Oprah Winfrey

Every day, you’re only as good as your last show.

Oprah Winfrey

I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don’t know anything about.

Oprah Winfrey

Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.

Oprah Winfrey

You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you’re responsible for the energy that you bring to others.

Oprah Winfrey

Even people who believe they deserve to be happy and have nice things often don’t feel worthy once they have them.

Oprah Winfrey

You alone are enough.

Oprah Winfrey

Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You’ll see the difference it makes.

Oprah Winfrey

Money is worth nothing if it can’t buy you the opportunity to love more.

Oprah Winfrey

I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.

Oprah Winfrey

If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.

Oprah Winfrey

You are who you are at this moment because of everything that’s ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.

Oprah Winfrey

You can either see yourself as a wave in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean.

Oprah Winfrey

My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It’s to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.

Oprah Winfrey

Over the years, I’ve interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I’ve ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.

Oprah Winfrey

I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.

Oprah Winfrey

I always feel that until you take your last breath, you’re always growing.

Oprah Winfrey

I’m not even kind of a lesbian.

Oprah Winfrey

I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, ‘you are going to have to learn to do this,’ and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother’s life.

Oprah Winfrey

It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.

Oprah Winfrey

The struggle of my life created empathy – I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

Oprah Winfrey

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I’ve become. If I had, I’d have done it a lot earlier.

Oprah Winfrey

Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I’m not willing to go.

Oprah Winfrey

Don’t let people talk you into what they think is you.

Oprah Winfrey

I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.

Oprah Winfrey

When you’re the most successful person in your family, in your neighborhood, and in your town, everybody thinks you’re the First National Bank, and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are.

Oprah Winfrey

I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.

Oprah Winfrey

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.

Oprah Winfrey

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

Oprah Winfrey

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

Oprah Winfrey

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Oprah Winfrey

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

Oprah Winfrey

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.

Oprah Winfrey

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

Oprah Winfrey

As you become more clear about who you really are, you’ll be better able to decide what is best for you – the first time around.

Oprah Winfrey

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

Oprah Winfrey

I’m sick of people sittin’ in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape… then we have our experts on the topic… I’m in the ‘What’s next?’ phase of my career.

Oprah Winfrey

You CAN have it all. You just can’t have it all at once.

Oprah Winfrey

Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.

Oprah Winfrey

So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.

Oprah Winfrey

What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.

Oprah Winfrey

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

Oprah Winfrey

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

Oprah Winfrey

It’s much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That’s the truth.

Oprah Winfrey

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.

Oprah Winfrey

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people’s lives.

Oprah Winfrey

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

Oprah Winfrey

I am a woman in process. I’m just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

Oprah Winfrey

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Oprah Winfrey

I don’t think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Oprah Winfrey

It isn’t until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are – not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within – that you can begin to take control.

Oprah Winfrey

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

Oprah Winfrey

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

Oprah Winfrey

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Oprah Winfrey

My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.

Oprah Winfrey

I don’t think you ever stop giving. I really don’t. I think it’s an on-going process. And it’s not just about being able to write a check. It’s being able to touch somebody’s life.

Oprah Winfrey

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

Oprah Winfrey

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Oprah Winfrey

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Oprah Winfrey

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

Oprah Winfrey

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

Oprah Winfrey

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.

Oprah Winfrey

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

Oprah Winfrey

I always knew I was destined for greatness.

Oprah Winfrey

I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.

Oprah Winfrey

I’m black, I don’t feel burdened by it and I don’t think it’s a huge responsibility. It’s part of who I am. It does not define me.

Oprah Winfrey

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that’s how I operate my life.

Oprah Winfrey

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Oprah Winfrey

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Oprah Winfrey

For everyone of us that succeeds, it’s because there’s somebody there to show you the way out.

Oprah Winfrey

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

Oprah Winfrey

My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.

Oprah Winfrey

The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn’t simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it’s a story about who you want to be.

Oprah Winfrey

I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

Oprah Winfrey

When I look into the future, it’s so bright it burns my eyes.

Oprah Winfrey

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

Oprah Winfrey

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

Oprah Winfrey

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.

Oprah Winfrey

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Oprah Winfrey

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

Oprah Winfrey

Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?

Joel Osteen

I really believed that fear is contagious.

Joel Osteen

I’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.

Joel Osteen

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

Joel Osteen

You are victors, not victims!

Joel Osteen

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

Joel Osteen

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

Joel Osteen

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

Joel Osteen

We live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.

Joel Osteen

I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what’s happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.

Joel Osteen

I do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

Joel Osteen

People are skeptical of many televangelists, and I’m sensitive to that.

Joel Osteen

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

Joel Osteen

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

Joel Osteen

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

Joel Osteen

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

Joel Osteen

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

Joel Osteen

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

Joel Osteen

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

Joel Osteen

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

Joel Osteen

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

Joel Osteen

Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.

Joel Osteen

A disagreement or incident involving someone who’s not that important to you, like a guy who cut you off in traffic or a rude cashier, is something that should roll off your shoulders. Save the effort for resolving conflicts with the people you cherish.

Joel Osteen

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

Joel Osteen

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

Joel Osteen

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‘I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.’ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

Joel Osteen

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we’d go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father’s televised service for 17 years.

Joel Osteen

My friends and I had fun together, but I was more reserved, not at all the life of the party. I would just be the quiet one in the room.

Joel Osteen

I’m not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody’s throat: ‘You’re going to do it my way.’ I’d rather show by example and live my life and have people say, ‘You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He’s got peace and joy, and he seems content.’

Joel Osteen

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

Joel Osteen

The question is not, ‘Do you have a problem?’ The question is, ‘Does the problem have you?’

Joel Osteen

When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.

Joel Osteen

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

Joel Osteen

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