Glenn Beck
Quite honestly, I was running from myself. But I knew how to work Top 40 radio.
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.
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.
You've got to demand the truth from yourself.
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.
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.
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.
I can multitask like crazy. I'm riddled with ADD - a blessing and a curse.
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.
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.
A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.
When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.
My father told me abuse is generational.
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.
I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it.
Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you're worthy of the trip.Collection: Believe
You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense.Collection: Rights
The moment you stop worrying about success is when success will happen.Collection: Worry
Don't fall into the trap of believing so deeply in your own ideology that you cannot even see the flaws in it.Collection: Believe
Whoever thought a tiny candy bar should be called fun size was a moron.Collection: Fun
This president (Barack Obama) I think has exposed himself over and over and over again as a guy who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture . . . I’m not saying he doesn't like white people, I’m saying he has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist.Collection: Believe
Most times we're so focused on what we think we want that we can't appreciate how happy we already are. It's only when we forget about our problems and help others forget theirs that we realize how good we really have it.Collection: Helping Others
All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny.Collection: Destiny
It is only on the battlefield of ideas that the best ones can be recognized and ultimately prevail. Only those afraid of the truth seek to silence debate, intimidate those with whom they disagree, or slander their ideological counterparts. Those who know they are right have no reason to stifle debate because they realize that all opposing arguments will ultimately be overcome by fact.Collection: Ideas
Hate is on a scale, and is growing on a planetary scale of unprecedented size. The violent left is coming to our streets, all of our streets, to smash, to tear down, to kill, to bankrupt, to destroy. It is will be global in its nature and global in its scope.Collection: Hate
Everyone needs a place where they can go to just ponder for a while. Silence is important; it's the only time you can hear the whispering of truth.Collection: Silence
Besides, life isn't meant to be safe. It's only in our mistakes, our errors, and our faults that we grow and truly live.Collection: Mistake
If you don't find a leader, perhaps it is because you were meant to lead.Collection: Leader
Following the herd is fine, until they all run off the side of a cliff together.Collection: Running
When you choose the path, you choose the destination.Collection: Path
Question with boldness, hold to the truth, and speak without fear.Collection: Speak
America comes with both rights and responsibilities. You have, for example, the right to free speech, but you have the responsibility to not yell 'fire' in a crowded theater. If you don't live up to that responsibility, you face certain consequences. It's a simple but effective formula. Unfortunately, tenured professors are completely insulated from it. They can scream fire in their classrooms all they want - and then hide behind their tenure if anyone questions them on it.Collection: Responsibility
There are a lot of universities that are as dangerous with the indoctrination of the children as terrorists are in Iran or North Korea. We have been setting up reeducation camps. We call them universities.Collection: Children
You've never met a more flawed guy than me.Collection: Guy
We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be "empathetic," not blind.Collection: Justice
Thomas Jefferson creates the Marines for the Islamic pirates that were happening.Collection: Islamic
We have a president who apparently loves instability and revolution, and that is the antithesis of those two words, Social Security.Collection: Two
Somehow I understood without the storm I couldn't know myself.Collection: Storm
Always remember where we come from, how we got here, and Who led us into the warmth of the sunshine.Collection: Sunshine
You never fully appreciate what you had until you don’t have it anymoreCollection: Appreciate
Hello, you sick twisted freak.Collection: Sick
If I'm ever in a weird car accident, or I commit suicide or something, after the media stops celebrating my death, could they check into it? Because I'm not suicidal. And I'm a pretty good driver.Collection: Suicide
Not a chance. I don't know what Sarah (Palen)'s doing, (but) I have no desire to be president of the United States, zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable.Collection: Zero
What I am feeling in myself, and what is happening to my physical body, to some extent, and what is happening to me mentally, is not a depression, is not a death. It is a transformation. It is a transcendence.Collection: Feelings
Girl, you better check yourself before you wreck yourself!Collection: Girl
For a lot of people, me included, abortion is murder. And it just becomes clearer and clearer the closer you get to birth. I mean, it's just so - I think if you had a womb with a window, it would never happen.Collection: Mean
What's the difference between a communist or socialist and a progressive? Revolution or evolution? One requires a gun and the other eats away slowly.Collection: Gun
I went to the movie this weekend with a gun. And surprise, surprise, I didn't kill anybody!Collection: Weekend
Nobody wants to say that the man [Obama] is a Marxist. Okay, so he's not a Marxist. He's a progressive! This is semantics.Collection: Men