“The pursuit of truth is not a sprint, it’s a marathon. Truth always wins when it comes out. I know this for a fact.”
“I’m being inundated with e-mails from many of you expressing your anger and your desire to help. Folks, I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it. You know, the bond that you and I have as host and audience is one that the media can’t break.”
“Anybody can take me on about what I have said; I expect that. But to go after me about what I have not said shows the character of the people behind this smear.”
“I want you all to understand: I’m not even thinking of exiting or caving. I am not a caver. None of us are. We have been betrayed by too many who have caved. You know, pioneers take the arrows, and we are pioneers.”
“This economy is an embarrassment, and it needn’t be this way. This is the United States of America! If this man and this administration would simply get out of everyone’s way and turn the people loose, we would have a vibrant recovery faster than you can snap your fingers.”
“I wonder if Ms. Jackson Lee has any regard for the truth. Does she have any desire to sound intelligent and knowledgeable, or is she content to go to the floor of the House of Representatives and make a fool of herself?”
“Now we hear Chris Matthews talking about somebody putting a pellet gun in my mouth and pulling the trigger. Where’s all the clamor for civility from the left? Where did it go?”
“These are dark, dark days for our country, and every little bit of government control over our lives and the loss of liberty that you endorse is one more bit of liberty that you probably will surrender forever. If you want to do that, fine, but I’m not with you.”
“Okay, so Rick Sanchez repeats the slavery quote, notes that I deny it, and then says it doesn’t matter. Now, do you know who Rick Sanchez is? Did you know he has two middle names? Rick ‘DUI’ Sanchez, and Rick ‘Leaving-the-Scene’ Sanchez.”
“Pointing out all of the flaming hypocrites in the media would be like trying to track down all of Madonna’s sex partners — after a hundred of them, you just stop counting.”
“Isn’t it interesting the Obama regime can call me any name in the book — troublesome, filled with vitriol — and yet you can’t call Muslim extremists ‘Islamic radicals’?”
“We learned a lot about Barack Obama this week from two simple questions and his two convoluted answers: one, he’s boring; two, he’s a phony, but we already knew that he can’t be trusted.”
“If you voted for Obama because you supported his health care overhaul and thought it was going to be free and beginning immediately, you ought to go in and demand it. You know, pretend you’re Obama — pretend you’re a community agitator or organizer.”
“People can’t get their arms around the fact that Obama thinks the country is the problem, but they’re going to have to accept that fact pretty soon, folks, because it’s the only way to understand everything that he does.”
“May I ask a question? What are we doing having relationships with the ‘Muslim world’ anyway? Do we have a relationship with the ‘Catholic world’? Do we have a relationship with the ‘Jewish world’? Well, if we did, Obama’s taken care of that.”
“The problem with the deficits is not insufficient taxation. The problem with the deficits is out-of-control spending by the regime.”
“I can’t imagine what it must be like to be in a family who lost someone on 9/11 to hear about Obama’s plans for the ‘Muslim world’. I can’t imagine what it was like when they found out that this government was willing to spend $200 milliona year in security for the people who blew up the World Trade Center in a civil trial.”
“If we can’t call Islamic radicals ‘Islamic radicals’, then we shouldn’t call rapists ‘rapists’. We call them ‘uninvited perpetrators’, or penetrators, if you wish.”
“I wasn’t being rude; I was just speaking straight up. I mean, having somebody with zero experience asking to host the most listened-to media presentation in the country… that would be like some unskilled, inexperienced person wanting to be president — and look where that got us.”
“It’s so bad out there, counterfeiters are counterfeiting one-dollar bills and leaving them in tip jars. The hard times continue.”
“Whatever else happens, Barack Obama will provide The View with some much needed estrogen.”
“We were participating in a GM advertising campaign, and they wanted us to continue, and it was a large financial commitment that they were making. But I turned it down because I’m not going to recommend people go buy an electric car.”
“The National Enquirer has a story that Chelsea Clinton is having nervous breakdowns; she’s worried that her husband-to-be might cheat on her. Now, where would she get an idea like that?”
“Look at how much the cost has gone up to show how much you care. You used to be able to show everybody how superior you were with a ten-cent red ribbon. Now you have to spend 30 or 41 grand on an electric car.”
“Oprah’s ratings, for the secondor third time in a month, have reached an all-time low, and I don’t think it’s any coincidence that her ratings are tumbling along with Obama’s. As Obama goes, so go his supporters.”
“All of you Democrats, all you liberals — you think you’ve won something here with this temporary injunction against the Arizona immigration law, but this is just going to add to the size of your defeat come November.”
“Let me encapsulate this for you. Very simple. As far as the Arizona law is concerned, it is no longer illegal to be illegal. Thank you, Judge Bolton.”
“Too many people are afraid to admit what they know is right because it will cause controversy or confrontation. Well, we need to elect people to federal office who will take that Arizona law, make it federal law, and apply it in every state, every town, and every city.”
“People on our side have been co-opted by the ruling class, so we can’t wait on someone else to ride to the rescue. There is no cavalry. We are the cavalry. We’re going to have to do this ourselves.”
“I’m always happy when I’m right, which means I’m always happy.”
“The more people hear from Obama, the more they’re turned off by him, because the media’s built him up into something he can’t be.”
“I told Cookie, ‘Just give me three or four sound bites from any Obama speech in the last two years. I don’t care, pick one.’ I’m going to play these bites and say, ‘When did he say this? Last night? Two years ago?’ It doesn’t matter, folks. It’s all same.”
“I’m listening to all this Sputnik business from Obama and I’m thinking, ‘Wait, pal, aren’t you the guy that wanted to turn NASA into a Muslim outreach arm of the federal government?'”
“Somebody onceasked me, ‘Rush, where does Fox find all of those blondes?’ And I said, ‘Roger Ailes told me: they have a factory. It’s on Bikini Atoll, and it’s amazing.'”
“Last night Obama said, ‘If we want innovation to produce jobs in America, not overseas, then we also have to win the race to educate our kids.’ At that point I was saying, ‘No, we have to get rid of you.’ Folks, you’d be amazed how often that phrase worked last night.”
“I’ll never forget the trouble I got into with our Detroit affiliate, WJR, when I referred to Detroit as ‘New Fallujah’.”
“The State of the Union was great back in the old days when Clinton, after the Lewinsky stuff was discovered, looked up there at Hillary — who had this Nurse Ratched look on her face — and said, ‘I honor you.’ And everybody thought, ‘Oh, my God, what’s going to happen when they get home?'”
“Joe Biden… Is his head rejecting the plugs? It looks like there’s less hair there. I mean, this isthe kind of stuff I was thinking about during the State of the Union because there was so little substance happening.”
“If kids are not being taught the sciences, then what are they being taught? Well, let’s go down the list: self-esteem, sex education, gym, conflict resolution, MTV 101, and oh, yeah — polar bears and environmental destruction.”
“I’ve had a lot of people tell me that Obama’s the best thing that ever happened to conservatism, but the damage that he’s done is real, and it’s going to take years to roll it back.”