Glenn Lee Beck is an American radio host.
He has his own show called the ‘Glenn Beck Radio Program’. It is a nationwide broadcast talk show on Premiere Radio Networks
Glenn Beck is also a famous media personality, author, and political commentator. Apart from radio, Glenn Beck also hosts the Glenn Beck television show. It aired on HLN from January 2006 to October 2008. He was also a presenter for Fox News from January 2009 to June 2011 and currently works at TheBlaze.
Beck has six New York Times best-selling novels to his credit. He is the founder and CEO of Mercury Radio Arts. Through this parent company, he owns his television and radio station, TheBlaze.
In April 2011, Glenn Beck declared to 'transition off of his daily program' on Fox News. But, he would continue collaborating with the radio network. Beck's last daily show on the network was on June 30, 2011.
Beck was selected on The Hollywood Reporter's Digital Power Fifty list in 2012. Beck founded TheBlaze after quitting Fox News in 2011.
'The Glenn Beck Program' is an hour-long afternoon and a three-hour morning program. Both are broadcast on weekdays on TheBlaze. Beck is also the host of 'For the Record' on TheBlaze.
Glen Beck holds strong ideals about what America is supposed to be like. His sayings reflect his peculiar sense of humor. They also highlight his strong criticism of American politics, society, and human behavior. Want to understand America and its people from a different pair of eyes? These Glenn Beck quotes can provide you with quite a straightforward opinion.
Famous Glenn Beck Quotes
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Here are some famous quotes from Glenn Beck, a popular businessman. These quotes present Beck’s strong criticism of America's political and social environment.
"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."
"Political Correctness doesn't change us, it shuts us up."
"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."
"Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith 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."
“You cannot take away the 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.”
- ‘Glenn Beck’s Common Sense: The Case Of An Out-Of-Control Government, Inspired By Thomas Paine’, 2009
"It is a bizarre world. It is an upside-down, inside-out, quantum physics world. It is the eve of destruction in America."
"The government is trying to now close the Lincoln Memorial for any kind of large gatherings."
"I think every American has a role in saving this country. Whether you're a Democrat, Republican, or independent, it doesn't matter. We all know the country is in trouble. We may disagree on how to solve it, but we all know the country's in trouble."
"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."
"I contend that the reason why America is not as happy as it was in 1950 or 1920 or whenever, 100 years ago, is because our priorities are wrong, but it has nothing to do with exploiting the planet and has everything to do with losing faith in God."
"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."
"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."
- Interview with Steve Krakauer for CNN US, June 18, 2012
"You have three people in the White House that are in love with eugenics or whatever it is you would call it today."
“After the signing of the Constitution, Benjamin Franklin was asked by a woman on the street, "What have you given us, sir?"
- ‘Glenn Beck’s Common Sense: The Case Of An Out-Of-Control Government, Inspired By Thomas Paine’, 2009
"Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you are worthy of the trip."
- ‘The Christmas Sweater’, 2008
"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."
"Following the herd is fine, until they all run off the side of a cliff together."
- ‘Glenn Beck: Don’t follow herd on the economy’, CNN US, February 28, 2008
"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."
"What's amazing to me? General Electric has a bigger budget for - special interest budget than all of the oil companies combined, and yet nobody says anything."
"The moment you stop worrying about success is when success will happen."
"I believe that if we get out of people's way, the sky's the limit. The sky is the limit."
"For those that think men make progress collectively, I warn you, history teaches: You couldn't be more wrong."
"Every time somebody new gets the Ebola virus, it mutates."
“Hate is on a scale, and is growing of a planetary scale of unprecedented size.”
- speech at Values Voter Summit, 2011
"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."
“It is only on the battlefield of ideas that the best ones can be recognized and ultimately prevail.”
- ‘Glenn Beck’s Common Sense: The Case Of An Out-Of-Control Government, Inspired By Thomas Paine’, 2009
“We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be ‘empathetic’, not blind.”
Best Glenn Beck Quotes
Below is a collection of the best quotes from 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."
"We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was."
"You got to have an enemy to fight. And when you have an enemy to fight, then you can unite the entire world behind you, and you seize power."
- ‘Exposed: Glenn Beck’s Climate Of Distortion’, May 8, 2007
"America, I'm gonna shoot straight with you, I think I've wasted your time. I think this is the first time I have wasted an hour of your time. I apologize for that."
"When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe; you don't want to step on any mine."
"If we just stop producing stuff, if we stop being so capitalist, we stop taking resources from other third world countries, we'll be happy."
"Our Constitution is not based on the Book of Deuteronomy. I sometimes get criticized for coming right out and calling David Barton a liar."
"I mean a racist, hate-filled host who is openly trying to get people to be violent would have zero viewers in America I know and love."
"All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference."
- ‘An Inconvenient Book’, November 20, 2007
"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."
"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."
"It’s only when we forget about our problems and help others forget theirs that we realize how good we really have it."
- ‘The Christmas Sweater’, 2008
"A classic liberal is more like a libertarian. I'm sorry. Classic liberal, actually, from the 1800s has a totally different meaning than a liberal who is [modern] classic."
"It's not just spending, it's not just taxing, it's not just corruption, it is progressivism, and it is in both parties. It is in the Republicans and the Democrats."
“Only those afraid of the truth seek to silence debate, intimidate those with whom they disagree, or slander their ideological counterparts.”
"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."
- ‘The Glenn Beck Program’, October 5, 2006
"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"
"People aren't happy unless they buy stuff, and that's because we have become this industrialized nation."
"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."
"It's frequently said that there is 'no reason' for such 'military-style weapons' as the Bushmaster to be available to citizens. But isn't that a lot like saying there is no reason why any civilian should drive a military-style car like the Hummer?"
"By the way, I'm not just one man with a chalkboard. I'm one man with four chalkboards."
"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."
"'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."
"I'm a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids even to inherit the money that I'm making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their lifetime."
“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.”
Inspirational Glenn Beck Quotes
This list presents some inspiring sayings from Glenn Quotes.
"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.
"Sometimes our strengths are also our weaknesses. Sometimes to be strong you have to first be weak. You have to share your burdens; you have to lean on other people while you face your problems and yourself."
" We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny.”
- ‘An Inconvenient Book’, November 20, 2007
“Most times we’re so focused on what we think we want that we can’t appreciate how happy we really are.”
- ‘The Christmas Sweater’, 2008
"Without failure, there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it."
"You've got to demand the truth from yourself."
"Thomas Paine was an unremarkable man living in a remarkable time. He proved that it doesn't take celebrity, stature, or wealth to make a difference."
"Life is what you make of it. There's always fun and laughs right under your nose if you're willing to open your eyes to see it."
"If you treat an animal right, they don't run away. They're not like us. They run away from people they don't trust; most times, we run away from ourselves"
"Besides, life isn’t meant to be safe. It’s only our mistakes, our errors, and our faults that we grow and truly live."
"When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?"
"Somehow, I understood without the storm, I couldn't know myself."
"You can either complain about how hard your life is, or you can realize that only you are responsible for it."
"If you don't find a leader, perhaps it is because you were meant to lead."
"Always remember where we come from, how we got here, and Who led us into the warmth of the sunshine."
"Because others have let us down, it is now our duty to face the hard truths and do the right thing--no matter the personal cost."
"When you choose the path, you choose the destination."
- ‘The Christmas Sweater’, 2008
"I collapsed to my knees and looked up at the predawn sky. "I hate you," I said softly."I love you," the voice whispered back."
"You never fully appreciate what you had until you don’t have it anymore."
"You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I've made lots of money making fun of me"
"Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against the truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love."
"Question with boldness, hold to the truth, and speak without fear."
- ‘The Jefferson Lies: Exposing The Myths You’ve Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson’, 2012
"When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?"
"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 death. It is a transformation. It is a transcendence."
"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."
"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"
"Everyone wants to feel loved, but when all you feel is alone it's tough to accomplish anything else."
"Remember, beneath every cynic, there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one."
"Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or the president. We get them from God."
"You must see yourself as a guardian, somebody who will preserve what is true and pass it on."
“Don't fall into the trap of believing so deeply in your ideology that you cannot even see the flaws in it."
- ‘Being George Washington: The Indispensable Man, As You’ve Never Seen Him’, 2011
"But are we even capable of maintaining a Republic anymore? Are there enough citizens willing to do the hard work that self-rule requires,"
- ‘Glenn Beck’s Common Sense: The Case Of An Out-Of-Control Government, Inspired By Thomas Paine’, 2009
"If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop."
“The message 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.”
- ‘Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace’, www.foxnews.com, August 29, 2010
"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."
“...no one who has passed through the storm has ever regretted the journey. No one stands here and wishes to go back to the other side.”
Short Glenn Beck Quotes
Here are some short quotes by Glenn Beck.
“You know, honestly - look, I’m not a journalist.”
"I can multitask like crazy. I'm riddled with ADD - a blessing and a curse."
"We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed."
"It's a real blessing for me to tell you, sir, that calvary has arrived - Fox is here!"
"If you log onto this (Cars.gov) at your home, everything in your home is now theirs."
"A master race! A perfect person. ... The stuff that we are facing is absolutely frightening."
"We don’t need militants or revolutionaries. We need guardians. We need leaders."
"A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it."
"Advocating through art is known as propaganda. You should look up the name Goebbels."
"I'm not a journalist. I'm just a guy who cares."
- ‘The Glenn Beck Program’, February 3, 2009
"The hottest year in global [sic] history was 1934."
"Quite honestly, I was running from myself. But I knew how to work Top 40 radio."
"I’m a little of everything, a concerned dad, a faith-based guy, businessman, entertainer and journalist."
"What is the point of competing for a trophy if everyone gets a trophy?"
"I say on the air all time, if you take what I say as gospel, you're an idiot."
"To restore America, we need less Marx and more Madison."
"Money doesn't talk; it screams."
"God takes attendance every day."
- ‘The Christmas Sweater’, 2008
"I haven't seen a half-monkey, half-person yet."
I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it.
"The worst is still ahead of us. But no one in Washington has the spine to tell you that."
"Application of your faith will change your life."
"The purpose of a just government is to prevent plunder, not facilitate it."
"I don't feel comfortable voting for Donald Trump."
- Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org., August 13, 2016
"I don't feel comfortable voting for Hilary Clinton.”
- Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org., August 13, 2016
"You can’t convince me that the Founding Fathers wouldn’t allow you to secede."
"I am a conservative, but I am not a zombie."
“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.”
