Rush Limbaugh Quotes

Obama does not represent America. Nor does he represent anything what our forefathers stood for. This country is basically built on an attitude. It's a way of life. It's not because you're born here. It's not that you're supposed to take from those who have and give to those who haven't. That kills a country. It killed Russia.

I think, with Obama and the progressives, you've seen a massive expansion of big government, and it's all based on a moral premise. The moral premise is that wealth is theft. And I don't just mean the wealth of America, I mean, your wealth, my wealth.

For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.

I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States.

The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to collectivists, to people who believe that wealth is best obtained by redistribution, and that message is clear and concise . . . Egalitarianism is sinful; it's also cowardly.

I'm no communist.I'm a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.

The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.

Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation. If you really want to look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ -- who I think was the first socialist -- only socialism can really create a genuine society.

There is nothing in Socialism a little age or a little money will not cure.

Whatever tends to preserve the wealth of the wealthy is conservatism, and whatever favors anything else, no matter what, they call socialism.

A conservative is someone who demands a square deal for the rich.

The ideas of socialism are not modern ideas.

Democracy must knock the rough edges off capitalism so that capitalism is safe for everyone and not just the big boys.

Individualism is to collectivism as capitalism is to socialism

Tampering with the market system to redistribute the wealth or assure that the poor are protected is labeled "socialism." By these standards Jesus was a socialist.

The Socialist movement is the abolitionist movement of the 20th century.

Read the novels of some authors with leftist tendencies, such as Howard Fast. Read the famous book, The Grapes of Wrath, written by John Steinbeck … and see what it says about the situation of the left and how the capitalists of the of the so-called Center of Democracy treated them.

The argument that any income redistribution is tantamount to socialism, and that socialism has always been unAmerican, has helped legitimise keeping taxes on America's very wealthy very low.

I'm a socialist.

I think there are a lot of people who, when they hear the word 'socialist,' get very, very nervous.

Politically at that time, with Thatcher in Britain and Reagan in the White House, it wasn't looking too great for the Left. And we were always on the left.

When people are desperate or wealthy, they turn to socialism; only when they have no other alternative do they embrace the free market. After all, lies about guaranteed security are far more seductive than lectures about personal responsibility.

Here's the American situation - we have moved from a culture of independence to a culture of dependence. We have moved from capitalism into the direction of socialism. We have moved from being a beacon of strength internationally to a position of weakness.

I am convinced that there are few, if any, American people that could even start believing or understanding what living in a socialist country does to a person.

Socialism ruins societies because it misunderstands human nature.