"I'm very honored. I now have something in common with Justice Thomas: I, too, have had my high-tech lynching."

"It was fascinating to watch my e-mail when it first leaked that Dave Checketts was kicking me out of the group. I started getting requests from media people: 'We'd like to have you on; could you tell us what you think?' I'm saying to myself, 'Why should I say another syllable to these people when they make it up anyway?'"

"I tell you with absolute sincerity that I am more sad for our country than I am for myself. These are dark days that we face, and I'm not talking about the National Football League or me -- I'm talking about my news stack today."

"I still love professional football, but those people who enabled this event for their own racial reasons are going to be just as unhappy as they were before this happened." 

"The US Chamber of Commerce is launching an advertising campaign to extol the virtues of free market enterprise; they feel the need to spend $25 million to tell the American people what capitalism is. Dark days, folks. Dark days."

"I met Ken Hutcherson on a fishing trip, of all places. I really, really got to know him well. I didn't catch any fish, but I caught the Hutch as a friend."

"I don't know if the NFL realizes it yet, but they've really gone down a slippery slope. They have now allowed Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and DeMaurice Smith to have a say in who can and cannot own a team, based on what that person might think or say."

"I think journalism is forever gone as we've known it. It's been corrupted by people who have no character, no integrity, and very little, if any, concern for the truth. It's all about advancing an agenda and protecting Obama."

"I've always gotten frustrated with people who say, 'Rush, we're never really going to make any progress until the media starts reporting the truth about us.' That's like saying, 'We're never going to make any progress until Obama becomes a conservative.'"

"Bob Costas is a very unhappy little diva."