Mike Gallagher Quotes

Respect? The people supporting illegals don’t know the meaning of the word.

For many impoverished people, living under a tarp or in a cardboard box is a way of life.

‘The Daily Show’ is a cultural phenomenon.

Listener and reader input is every bit as important as anything any of us can say. We’d be like crazy people chattering in the middle of that empty field that Joe Biden thinks we should stand in to be safe from swine flu if it weren’t for the calls, the letters, the blogs, and the reaction from our audience.

Schools insist that everything is under their purview – what your kids eat, what they believe, what they say on the playground.

The Great Seal has got it all – everything liberals despise is there, front and center.

I think the Republican Party is lost in terms of whether we should be stronger on the social issues or ignore the social issues. But I think the Rand Pauls, the Ted Cruzes, that’s the future of the party.

As a Fox News Channel contributor, I’ve learned most of the tips over the years: look into the camera like it’s a good friend; pull your suit jacket down and sit on it so it doesn’t bunch up; and most importantly, never, ever say anything while sitting in that studio that you wouldn’t want someone else to hear.

Many activists and antagonists who are on the wrong side of an issue employ the tactic of, ‘the best defense is a good offense.’

I think that the tea party, grassroots ideology will win every time.

Oliver Stone might think he’s a guy who chews with his mouth open and yells at the hired help, but the George W. Bush I’ve spent nearly three hours with is a warm, funny, smart, engaged, compassionate, patriotic, decent and honorable man.

The fact is that Democrats cannot stand dissent.

It doesn’t matter if one is live on-air or sitting through a commercial break. There aren’t any on or off switches on a lapel pin microphone; it is always ‘hot.’

Liberals spend a whole lot of time trying to convince us they love teachers, but dig even skin deep into the matter, and it becomes evident that liberals hate teachers.

We simply have to reign in the piggish people and money-hungry lawyers who chase every ambulance they see and expect companies and individuals to pay for everything that goes wrong.

When school officials want to get a teacher out of the classroom, they have to go through an arduous and multi-year process involving hearings and appeals and lawyers and more hearings. All the while, the teacher draws full pay.

Every new revelation about the Obama Administration comes with the familiar musical notes of the Rod Serling TV classic ringing in my head: ‘Do-dee-do-do, do-dee-do-do.’

I think liberals would love to see the conservative party be more moderate, more middle of the road. I mean, my gosh, what do you call John McCain? Some would argue, what do you call Mitt Romney?

Public school teachers enjoy a huge amount of job security, thanks to their powerful unions and inflexible work rules.

The George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin affair is one of the most important and clarifying moments in American history.

I cannot imagine what it must feel like to be treated differently because of the color of my skin.

Believe me, I bash liberals for being mean-spirited and angry, but there are plenty on my side who are the same way.

It’s awkward to tell others that your spouse has died. Everyone becomes so sad and sorry, and you just hate like heck to have to break the news to someone who hasn’t heard the news.

I’m fired up about TV converter boxes.

The arrogance of the Left always fascinates me.

Like it or not, liberal radio hosts fail miserably in the spoken word format.

If you asked a team of expert psychologists and sociological researchers to come up with a design that was sure to infuriate and offend liberals in America, they’d probably come up with what we call the Great Seal.

It’s my goal to show the world that Americans know how to help Americans without expecting the government to come riding in on a white horse and save the day.

Evil is everywhere. But to believe that this is a country that resembles the Jim Crow-era is ludicrous and disingenuous.

People who are desperate for Barack Obama to win the presidency are capable of practically anything.

All I can think is that the owners of Chick-Fil-A have decided they have had enough, that they’re just going to focus on selling chicken sandwiches to as many people as they can, and they figure that keeping their views about marriage to themselves is better than having a bunch of angry activists on your doorstep.

The silliest, most frustrating national dialogue has been this chattering about waterboarding and slapping around bad guys in order to extract information from them.

One day before I die, I will finally understand why liberals, especially Jewish liberals, fail to fully support Israel in its right to survive terror attacks.

I’ve caught myself watching MSNBC more and more, simply amazed at the nightly hate-fest against millions of Americans who don’t see the world through the granny glasses of Keith Olbermann or any of the other radical liberals who host shows there.

‘We don’t torture’ is the anguished cry of squishy people who have decided that trying to frighten terrorists by roughing them up is somehow the very definition of torture.

The global warming hysterics don’t just offer opinions and beliefs about greenhouse gases and the like. These are people who speak as if they belong to a cult.

For people who never tire of telling the world what a moral high ground they’ve taken in opposing Donald Trump, they sure don’t seem to mind offering up a bellyful of gloats and taunts.

Since I’m a professional communicator, I think I instinctively cling to doing what I do best, even in times of crisis and turmoil.

Despite the fact that there was not one shred of evidence that George Zimmerman ‘racially profiled’ Trayvon Martin, America’s liberals have literally taken to the streets to denounce a verdict that was, by all accounts, a just one.

Liberals would prefer it if the bald eagle on the Great Seal was holding olive branches in both talons, or, better, an olive branch in one, and maybe a soft cushion in the other, to entice our enemies to lie down and snooze.

If a police officer is looking for a criminal, he or she might stop a number of people in that particular area and ask to see their driver’s license. No one bellyaches about civil rights or privacy issues. We’re just happy the cops are trying to find the bad guy.

Few news stories can demonstrate the stark difference between conservatism and liberalism like the George Zimmerman trial has done.

I continually ask myself if a decision I’m about to make falls short in the eyes of God or my family or my colleagues. It’s actually a pretty simple litmus test: am I doing the right thing or not? The answer is generally an easy one.

Arlen Specter is a scoundrel.

I’m not brave. Far from it.

I think you can be conservative and fight for what you believe in without being mean-spirited or bash people or be ugly about it.

For millions of Americans, the continued incarceration of Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos is a grim reminder of everything that has gone wrong with border security.

The Kennedy family might be a lot of things, but for RFK, Jr., ‘warm and fuzzy’ doesn’t exactly come to mind.

It’s awfully hard to get into the head of a liberal. Instead of logic and reason, they are drawn to emotions and feelings.

Fueled by the kindness and generosity of strangers, ‘Food for the Poor’ builds houses for people.

My radio company has begun calling me ‘the happy conservative warrior.’

Liberals instinctively cling to racism or bigotry or hate or narrow-mindedness whenever they can.

People on the Left get a pass when it comes to condemning white Americans.

While everyone of all political stripes are admitting that the surge is working and dramatically reducing the level of bloodshed in Iraq, Obama managed to complain that the Iraqis aren’t spending as much in rebuilding their own country as a result of the surge.

Picture what this country felt like in the weeks and months after 9/11. Can you imagine anyone even beginning to allow an advertising campaign promoting Islam, being endorsed and supported by a man the feds believe to be a terrorist, on New York City subways?

In many cases, the joy and honor of having a home has lifted people into a spirit of determination to try and achieve a better life for themselves and their families.

The Left loves to demonize the financially successful.

Want to fire up a liberal? Dare to suggest that a nervous looking young Middle Eastern man standing in a TSA line to get on an airplane should be scrutinized.

‘Out of many, one’ is the national motto, and what the Founders imagined it meant is that out of the great and celebrated differences between us comes one nation and one larger purpose.

Obama and his staff’s sheer disrespect for the presidency is probably causing the Gipper to spin in his grave.

For years, I have been criticized for supporting the military because I have no military experience. It’s one of the craziest complaints I’ve ever experienced in over 30 years as a radio talk show host.

After one election comes many more.

America is full of success stories featuring victories by the underdog.

I don’t have the level of vitriol and hatred for the other side as some of my colleagues do.

You can’t improve what you can’t measure, and liberals have resisted any kind of meaningful measurement of success in the classroom for decades. Instead of focusing on the three R’s, liberals have thrown up a barrage of silly things designed to distract us all from their awful stewardship of the schools.

Michael Savage turns on a microphone and broadcasts his opinions to faithful followers who enjoy listening to his views on politics, social issues, and anything else that this colorful, provocative, entertaining guy comes up with. It doesn’t matter which of his views I agree or disagree with.

Air America has tanked because it features a bunch of talentless, angry demagogues who wouldn’t know how to entertain a radio audience if their lives depended on it.

Maybe I’m just as bad as my critics who hound me.

You can’t be part of the unum, to a liberal. You always have to be a pluribus.

School systems now routinely have more administrators than classroom teachers. They have armies of counselors and therapists and nutritionists and ‘multi-cultural learning facilitators.’