Mike Gallagher Quotes

When your spouse is given a bleak prognosis, you become an expert in soaking up every moment of every day.

A lot of theatre people are definitely not conservative, but I don’t think liberals get to own the culture.

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

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

After watching the shrill reaction from liberals to the George Zimmerman verdict, I am reminded about why I’m proud to be a conservative.

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

A Democrat who had been JFK’s Secretary of the Navy, Connally believed that as many as 20 million Democrats would cross over to vote for Nixon because George McGovern wasn’t qualified to lead the nation, particularly because of his proposals for military cutbacks.

Right and wrong are not relative terms. There are fundamental truths. Evil flourishes, but good men continue to battle it – and win.

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.

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.’

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.

The more insanity that comes from Washington, D.C., the stronger the loyal opposition becomes.

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.

All of these ‘protections’ were put into place to provide public school teachers with the kind of job security and cushy work rules that United Auto Workers have enjoyed.

People are savvy enough to know that simply a threat of litigation is tantamount to a nice, hefty check.

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.

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

While headlines are being generated about the Democrat mindset of nationalizing private businesses and bailing out failed ventures, we seem to be ignoring one of the most massive bail-outs ever: the taxpayer-funded process of transitioning people from analog to digital television.

Let me get this straight: I can’t defend the military because I didn’t serve. So does that mean I can’t support police officers or firefighters because I’ve never been one? How about teachers? Can I support them since I’ve never taught a class before?

In 1972, former Texas Governor John Connally led ‘Democrats for Nixon.’

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.

‘The Daily Show‘ is a cultural phenomenon.

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

I’m not brave. Far from it.

The Left loves to demonize the financially successful.

Liberal idiocy surrounds us all. It threatens to destroy the values and lifestyles that millions of us cherish.

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

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.

Getting to shake hands, pose for pictures, sign books, and interact with people who listen to our radio shows is a blast.

I’m the kind of guy who likes to have a little friendly banter, even with someone I disagree with.

All Israel wants to do is survive.

I’ve loved traveling around the country and meeting people at book signings.

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.’

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

Arlen Specter is a scoundrel.

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

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.

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

We are, after all, a nation of laws. And we live in a culture where carrying a form of identification is as normal as keeping your car keys in your pocket. When any of us walk into a grocery store and cashes a check, no one skips a beat when asked to present our driver‘s license.

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.

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.

Oddly enough, Asians are a much smaller ‘minority‘ than African Americans in this country. But because Asians are so successful, college admission officers don’t feel sorry for them, so they are not a preferred ‘minority.’

Yes, Barack Obama could easily be cast as an American president in a movie or TV show.

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

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

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.

Larry King and his producers ought to go back to school and learn what ‘fair and balanced‘ really means.

After one election comes many more.

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.

Hamas, Hezbollah, and other Arab terror groups are committed to the destruction of Israel, a position supported by millions in the Muslim world.

‘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 sheer genius of talk radio and Townhall.com is that the environment is so interactive.

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.

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.

I’m fired up about TV converter boxes.

We know how to take care of one another without whining and accusing and belly-aching.

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.

Jesse Jackson is a master of the old expression that it doesn’t matter what someone says about you as long as they spell your name right.

I guess many of us are just prone to see what the other side is up to, maybe to reinforce our own worldviews and feel confident that our ideology is right and theirs is wrong.

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