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

“Political Correctness doesn't change us, it shuts us up.”

— Glenn Beck

“Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.”

— Glenn Beck

“Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are.”

— Glenn Beck

“Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.”

— 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

“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

“We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.”

— 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

“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

“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

“A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.”

— 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'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

“You've got to demand the truth from yourself.”

— 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

“We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.”

— 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

“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 don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it.”

— Glenn Beck