“We all have our inner demons.”
― Glenn Beck
“By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal, lost my family – I mean, it was bad. Bottomed out, didn’t know what I was going to do. I actually thought I was going to be a chef – go to work in a kitchen someplace.”
― Glenn Beck
“People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.”
― Glenn Beck
“I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hours before with Memorial Day, so it gives them a chance to serve and reflect and then celebrate. I am going to try to start that tradition here in America.”
― Glenn Beck
“Political Correctness doesn’t change us, it shuts us up.”
― Glenn Beck
“Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.”
― Glenn Beck
“Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.”
― Glenn Beck
“I believe that if we get out of people’s way, the sky’s the limit. The sky is the limit.”
― Glenn Beck
“What we don’t have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don’t have those rights.”
― Glenn Beck
“Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There’s no understanding of it.”
― Glenn Beck
“Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution, and it was designed to eat the Constitution, to progress past the Constitution.”
― Glenn Beck
“It does not have to be that the greatest generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our children will have a lower standard of living. It will be that way if we choose to believe that. I choose not to believe that.”
― Glenn Beck
“You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one – I can’t speak for you, but I’m on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show.”
― Glenn Beck
“When you’re true to yourself – not the audience that reads about me in the newspaper or sees a clip someplace, but the audience that actually comes and watches, just like Oprah – they get to know you and they sense something genuine.”
― Glenn Beck
“We’re giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.”
― Glenn Beck
“We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.”
― Glenn Beck
“You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I’ve made lots of money making fun of me.”
― Glenn Beck
“Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It’ll discredit any real legitmate movement.”
― Glenn Beck
“We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can’t even run our own government.”
― Glenn Beck
“I am like Howard Beale. When he came out of the rain and he was like, none of this makes any sense. I am that guy.”
― Glenn Beck
“I am a conservative, but I am not a zombie.”
― Glenn Beck
“Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative.”
― Glenn Beck
“The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be ‘What the hell you mean we’re out of missiles?’”
― Glenn Beck
“It’s a real blessing for me to tell you, sir, that calvary has arrived – Fox is here!”
― Glenn Beck
“No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.”
― Glenn Beck
“What does it mean to be a conservative? I don’t even know anymore. I know what it means to me. It means to me, personal responsibility. That if I’ve done something wrong, its up to me to pay the price. It’s up to me to make it right.”
― Glenn Beck
“The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn’t hijack it. And it’s because we’re afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we’re alone. We’re not.”
― Glenn Beck
“We all know what the problems are: it’s tax and spend. One party will tax and spend, the other party won’t tax but will spend. It’s both of them together.”
― Glenn Beck
“’Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I’m addicted to spending and big government.’ I’d like one of them just to stand up and say that.”
― Glenn Beck
“I have not heard people in the Republican Party yet admit that they have a problem. And when they do say that they have a problem I don’t know that I believe ’em.”
― Glenn Beck
“It’s not just spending, it’s not just taxes, it’s not just corruption, it is progressivism, and it is in both parties. It is in the Republicans and the Democrats.”
― Glenn Beck
“Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America – and it’s shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in America.”
― Glenn Beck
“Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are.”
― Glenn Beck
“When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?”
― Glenn Beck
“When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman – like my father, or like me?”
― Glenn Beck
“Americans also don’t need to be taught how to give. We don’t need to be taught how to take care of each other or how to be charitable.”
― Glenn Beck
“To restore America we need less Marx and more Madison.”
― Glenn Beck
“What is the point of competing for a trophy if everyone gets a trophy?”
― Glenn Beck
“The worst is still ahead of us. But no one in Washington has the spine to tell you that.”
― Glenn Beck
“Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.”
― Glenn Beck
“I beg you, look for the words ‘social justice’ or ‘economic justice’ on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words.”
― Glenn Beck
“If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.”
― Glenn Beck
“I think every American has a role in saving this country. Whether you’re Democrat, Republican, independent, it doesn’t matter. We all know the country’s in trouble. We may disagree on how to solve it, but we all know the country’s in trouble.”
― Glenn Beck
“And I’ve come to the place where I believe that there’s no way to solve these problems, these issues – there’s nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that’s a pretty tall order.”
― Glenn Beck
“The message that I gave on the – on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don’t believe that you can’t do it. Everybody wants – everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I’m not talking politics.”
― Glenn Beck
“Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice – that is the essence. And if it’s not the essence, then we’ve been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot – the content of character, not the color of skin.”
― Glenn Beck
“I have no desire to be president of the United States. Zero desire. I don’t think that I would be electable. And there are far too many people that are far smarter than me to be president. I’d like to find one with some honor and integrity. I haven’t seen them yet, but they’ll show up.”
― Glenn Beck
“When I was young, I used to hear people say, ‘He’s a golden boy. Look at that guy. Can you imagine what he’s going to be like when he grows up?’ Well, I unfortunately bought into that. And I hadn’t even found myself. Quite honestly, I was running from myself. But I knew how to work Top 40 radio.”
― Glenn Beck
“Quite honestly, I was running from myself. But I knew how to work Top 40 radio.”
― Glenn Beck
“I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don’t know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25.”
― Glenn Beck
“You’ve got to demand the truth from yourself.”
― Glenn Beck
“I’m a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I’m making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime.”
― Glenn Beck
“I’m not interested in breaking news. I’m interested in telling the story of what’s going on and then trying to figure it out.”
― Glenn Beck
“What I’m trying to do is get this message out about self-empowerment, entrepreneurial spirit and true Americanism – the way we were when we changed the world, when Edison was alone, failing his 2,000th time on the lightbulb.”
― Glenn Beck
“I can multitask like crazy. I’m riddled with ADD – a blessing and a curse.”
― Glenn Beck
“I was one of the hardest-hitting conservatives on George W. Bush. Republicans didn’t like me on George W. Bush. Republicans still don’t like me on many things. If any Republican thinks I’ve been hard on Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich or any of these guys, wait until Mitt Romney gets into office. I’ll hold his feet to the fire just as much.”
― Glenn Beck
“A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.”
― Glenn Beck
“When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don’t want to step on any mines.”
― Glenn Beck
“My father told me abuse is generational.”
― Glenn Beck
“Oprah is wildly successful, and she’s a brilliant businesswoman. She’s also somebody who’s overcome a ton of demons in her own life, and that’s really what shaped her. I think the same could be said for me.”
― Glenn Beck
“I don’t fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it.”
― Glenn Beck
“Music is the language of the heart, and conservatives always screw it up.”
― Glenn Beck
“I wasn’t just pro-choice, I was pro-everything, until I started taking everything off the table and began looking at things and asking if this view was consistent with that view.”
― Glenn Beck
“I’m the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring.”
― Glenn Beck
“I have found there are four steps to change. 1. You must want it. 2. You must believe it. 3. You must live it. 4. You will become it.”
― Glenn Beck
“I am a conservative who happens to not be a Republican.”
― Glenn Beck
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