Glenn Beck

American conservative political commentator

Glenn Beck is an American conservative political commentator, radio host, entrepreneur, and television producer. He is the CEO and founder of Mercury Radio Arts, the parent company of his television and radio network TheBlaze. Beck has authored several bestselling books and has received both praise and criticism for his political views and commentary.

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About the Glenn Beck

Glenn Lee Beckis an American conservative political commentator, radio host, entrepreneur, and television producer. He is the CEO, founder, and owner of Mercury Radio Arts, the parent company of his television and radio network TheBlaze. He hosts the Glenn Beck Radio Program, a talk-radio show nationally syndicated on Premiere Radio Networks. Beck also hosts the Glenn Beck television program, which ran from January 2006 to October 2008 on HLN, from January 2009 to June 2011 on Fox News and now airs on TheBlaze. Beck has authored six New York Times-bestselling books.

In April 2011, Beck announced that he would “transition off of his daily program” on Fox News, but would continue to team with Fox. His last daily show on Fox was June 30, 2011. In 2012, The Hollywood Reporter placed Beck on its Digital Power Fifty list. Beck launched TheBlaze in 2011 after leaving Fox News. He hosts an hour-long afternoon program, The Glenn Beck Program, on weekdays, and a three-hour morning radio show; both are broadcast on TheBlaze. Beck is also the producer of TheBlaze’s For the Record.

Beck has received both praise and criticism, characterized by his supporters as a defender of traditional American values and by his detractors as a demagogue. During Barack Obama’s presidency, Beck promoted conspiracy theories about Obama, his administration, George Soros, and others.

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Glenn Beck is an American conservative political commentator, radio host, entrepreneur, and television producer. He is the CEO, founder, and owner of Mercury Radio Arts, the parent company of his television and radio network TheBlaze.

The Glenn Beck Radio Program is a talk-radio show nationally syndicated on Premiere Radio Networks, hosted by Glenn Beck.

Glenn Beck has hosted the Glenn Beck television program, which ran from January 2006 to October 2008 on HLN, and from January 2009 to June 2011 on Fox News. He currently hosts a program on his own network, TheBlaze.

Glenn Beck has authored six New York Times–bestselling books.

In April 2011, Glenn Beck announced that he would ,transition off of his daily program, on Fox News, but would continue to team with the network. His last daily show on Fox was June 30, 2011.

TheBlaze is Glenn Beck’s television and radio network, which he launched in 2011 after leaving Fox News. Beck hosts an hour-long afternoon program, The Glenn Beck Program, on weekdays, and a three-hour morning radio show on TheBlaze.

Beck has received both praise and criticism, characterized by his supporters as a defender of traditional American values and by his detractors as a demagogue. During Barack Obama’s presidency, Beck promoted conspiracy theories about Obama, his administration, George Soros, and others.

42 Quotes by Glenn Beck

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    I believe that if we get out of people’s way, the sky’s the limit. The sky is the limit.

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    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.

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    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.

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    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.

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    ‘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

    American conservative political commentator

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    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.

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It’ll discredit any real legitmate movement.

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    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.

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can’t even run our own government.

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    And I’ve come to the place where I believe that there’s no way to solve these problems, these issues – there’s nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that’s a pretty tall order.

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    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

    American conservative political commentator

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    When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    Political Correctness doesn’t change us, it shuts us up.

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    What does it mean to be a conservative? I don’t even know anymore. I know what it means to me. It means to me, personal responsibility. That if I’ve done something wrong, its up to me to pay the price. It’s up to me to make it right.

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    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

    American conservative political commentator

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    Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    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.

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There’s no understanding of it.

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    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.

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    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.

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I’ve made lots of money making fun of me.

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    What is the point of competing for a trophy if everyone gets a trophy?

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    It’s not just spending, it’s not just taxes, it’s not just corruption, it is progressivism, and it is in both parties. It is in the Republicans and the Democrats.

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    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.

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    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.

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    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

    American conservative political commentator

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    I think every American has a role in saving this country. Whether you’re Democrat, Republican, independent, it doesn’t matter. We all know the country’s in trouble. We may disagree on how to solve it, but we all know the country’s in trouble.

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    I am a conservative, but I am not a zombie.

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    To restore America we need less Marx and more Madison.

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    What we don’t have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don’t have those rights.

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    The worst is still ahead of us. But no one in Washington has the spine to tell you that.

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    It’s a real blessing for me to tell you, sir, that calvary has arrived – Fox is here!

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be “What the hell you mean we’re out of missiles?”

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    I have no desire to be president of the United States. Zero desire. I don’t think that I would be electable. And there are far too many people that are far smarter than me to be president. I’d like to find one with some honor and integrity. I haven’t seen them yet, but they’ll show up.

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    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.

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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

    Glenn Beck

    American conservative political commentator

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    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

    American conservative political commentator