Tuesday Quotes: Leader of the Opposition

"I got in last night at 5:30, did a little show prep, and got to bed at 6:30. So I'm here on an hour and a half of sleep. You have been warned."

"Forty percent of Americans call themselves conservative, 36% describe themselves as moderates, and 20% are liberals. And yet everybody seems obsessed with these moderates!"



"It is stunning to me how closed-minded and narrow the media's world is, and how absolutely ignorant they are. I'm not questioning their intelligence, but that's next."



"Do you realize what a statement this is? For a sitting senator to come out and say that Obama is deliberately killing American jobs? That's big, and it's true, and I no longer feel like I'm on the plank by myself on this."



"If any of you think that you're going to have to an option to get out of the public option, forget it -- there's going to be nowhere to go. Private insurance is going to be regulated out of business."



"Folks, it's common sense: the only reason they're 'reforming' health care is to put the government in charge of it. You have to ignore all of this talk about opting out of the public option."



"You know, one of the things that I find the most frustrating is stupidity and ignorance among intelligent people. These people lack critical thinking. They're lapdog sycophants, brownnosers, and apple polishers!"



"The CBO (which I don't trust for a moment) just said that 12 million people would sign up for the public option. More like 83 million will be forced into the public option!"



"Anybody see double standards here? Bob Griese suspended for a week over a racial slur, yet I'm history at ESPN over a comment about the media. I'm not crying about it, folks, I'm just pointing out how this all works."



"Obama will only take credit for things that go well. If you fail, it's your fault. He'll throw you under the bus as fast as you can kick a paper cup under the bus."



"If the Democrats don't get this public option, it's going to be an even bigger monument to failure than Bill Clinton had. Clinton could have blamed it on his wife; Obama cannot blame it on anybody."



"Anderson Cooper's show is in fourth place; it's even losing to reruns on Headline News. So they had Barney Frank on there last night, which is a great way to get the numbers up, isn't it?"



"These Democrats want to try to take risk out of everything, but as I said last week, this is a nation built on risk-taking. That's what entrepreneurism is."



"Do you people running this show in New York actually think that Doug Hoffman is not going to vote with the Republicans in the House when he gets there? What in the world are you thinking? Scozzafava will vote with the Democrats just like Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins do!"



"It's well within the realm of possibility that Doug Hoffman can win this thing; Scozzafava has no base to bring her back. So this is a conservative versus a liberal Democrat in New York-23, and it's going to be fascinating to watch this play out."



"Reagan would not have gotten the nomination in 1980 without the primaries, because the Republican Party did not want Ronald Reagan in 1980. People have forgotten this. I have not."



"The Vietcong's favorite senator, John Kerry, is back to undermine another war. He undermined Vietnam, he undermined Iraq, and now he's undermining Afghanistan. Ah, isn't it wonderful how history repeats itself?"



"So here's the headline from a story in the New York Times on Sunday: 'Democrats See a Positive in a Bad Economy.' Duh!"

Rush Limbaugh