Eric Bolling > Quotes

“Instead of challenging the status quo and trusting in your own abilities, they would rather you trust in government.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. —ERICH FROMM”
― Eric Bolling, The Swamp: Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism and How Trump Can Drain It

“The idea of “merit”—so fundamental to the American system of government and culture—is based on a simple formula: People should succeed based on their own skills, talents, and efforts, not because it makes somebody “feel good” or because of some arbitrary societal or governmental standard.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“what Jefferson says is that all people are not equal in character, ability, or work ethic, and therefore the ideal system of government keeps the proverbial playing field as level as possible so that each person can live life, enjoy liberty, and experience happiness unencumbered by an oppressive government.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“The old iron days have gone, the days when the weakling died as the penalty of inability to hold his own in the rough warfare against his surroundings. We live in softer times.… We need then the iron qualities that must go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done. —THEODORE ROOSEVELT, COLORADO SPRINGS, AUGUST 2, 1901”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“As a nation, we need to toughen up, stop whining, and get to work.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“What liberals and their cult of “fairness” don’t seem to realize is how unfair this attitude is to those who are exceptional (and how destructive it is to a vibrant society). Imagine Mozart as a child attending a precious, liberal preschool today. While his teachers would almost certainly recognize his talent, they would as often as not try to squelch it, at least when other kids are around, lest they trouble the fragile self-image of his classmates.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” (Genesis 1:26)”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“MERIT noun mer·it \'mer-әt, 'me-rәt\ (1.) the quality of being good, important, or useful: value or worth —Merriam-Webster’s definition (1.) a false, bigoted, and usually racist notion that some people are better at certain tasks than others; praising the few ahead of the needs of the collective —A Leftist’s definition”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“Only a culture this backward could somehow anoint Hillary Clinton as a feminist icon. This woman makes it her business to ignore or denigrate the women who have accused her husband of sexual assaults, yet she still has the gall to declare that “every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported.” Unless of course, they are women like Juanita Broaddrick and Paula Jones who threaten the Clinton empire and who should, in that case, not only not be “heard, believed, and supported” but dismissed, ridiculed, and savaged by the Clinton propaganda machine. In her latest strategy, she’s decided to adopt “blame-men-first feminism,” which earned her the criticism of actual feminist Camille Paglia.17 I guess men are just easy targets these days.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“No longer are American students expected (or encouraged) to live up to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s definition of intelligence—“the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” There’s only room for one set of ideas in the American mind now—the politically correct ones.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“People and nations do have different, inherent talents, skills, abilities—strengths and weaknesses—and should be allowed to rise or fall based on them. Not everyone can be a rock star, pro athlete, or business tycoon. There’s nothing wrong with people who aren’t exceptional, but to act as if they are the same as those who are exceptional does a major disservice to both.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“don’t expect much to change anytime soon. These former gatekeepers of opinion live in a mind-numbing bubble in which they still think they set public attitudes. In the digital age, though, that is no longer the case. These types will keep chugging along until the writing is on the wall—or the pink slips have finally fully engulfed America’s newsrooms.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“It seems to me, though, that there are limits to what you need to do to make a buck. And some people, especially Leftist elites who love to lecture the rest of us, cross them all the time. Look no further than the obscene, shameful, unethical, and possibly illegal money grab that has been undertaken over the past few decades by those grotesque Gatsbys of greed and gluttony, Bill and Hillary Clinton.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“For decades, college professors and administrators have done everything in their power to get rid of conservative voices on campus, whether in the faculty, student body, or campus groups. In today’s campus atmosphere, holding conservative views is reflexively labeled as hateful, bigoted, or intolerant.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“What the United States did in the Revolutionary War and after is nothing short of a miracle. Not only did we defeat what was then the most powerful empire on earth, we went on to deliberately form a democratic form of republican government. The elites of the time—especially George Washington—turned their backs on millennia of precedent and, instead of creating a new monarchy and nobility with themselves at the helm, devised a government of, for, and by the people. It was a rebellion against the collectivism and groupthink that had lasted for centuries—the idea of the “divine right” of kings and queens to rule their people without their consent. The courage—the cojones, really—it took for these men to take up arms and risk everything to overturn their rulers is nothing short of astounding when you think about it.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“Though they understood public debt was sometimes a necessity, they lived in fear of the young republic living too far beyond its means. “There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation,” James Madison said in a 1790 speech, “than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that our appropriations should ever go hand in hand with our promises.”8 As George Washington warned lawmakers in 1793, “No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“The dirty little secret of liberalism is that, at least in today’s form, it’s not liberal at all. Liberals don’t want “liberty.” They can’t handle the messiness of real democracy in a dynamic republic. Instead of allowing individual citizens to pave their own way in life, liberals want a bunch of technocratic “experts” to decide what is best for the rest of us.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“it is important to note one thing: there are a few major exceptions to today’s “softness indoctrination.” The biggest and by far most important is the U.S. military. Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines are among the toughest, grittiest folks to ever walk the planet. Those who have fought in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the war on terror in general—as well as many of our first responders and law enforcement—are the exception to today’s soft America.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“Nation after nation declared independence from the Soviet Union, and for the first time, the world truly saw the stark contrast between the free world and the totalitarian misery of the Eastern bloc. The West was dominated by skyscrapers, shopping malls, and supermarkets stocked with five of everything; the egalitarian East? It was dominated by dreary ghetto-style block housing, bread lines, and censorship. The contrast was clear. This should have been the end of socialism. It should have been consigned to the dustbin of history. But it wasn’t.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united. —JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“In 2013 The New York Times, of all places, offered grotesque and embarrassing details of Bill Clinton’s quest to cash in on his public service. He was invited to speak at the ninetieth birthday party of his friend, fellow statesman, and Nobel Prize winner, the former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres. It’s the kind of nice gesture one former leader usually makes toward another—except with the Clintons, there was a catch (there’s always a catch): Bill wanted $500,000 to show up and speak. What a mensch! Even the liberal New Yorker magazine recently posed the question: “How much more money does Bill Clinton need?”29 Remember Truman’s vow not to “commercialize on the prestige and dignity of the office of the presidency”? Clearly that means about as much to Bill Clinton as being faithful to his wife.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“As Roosevelt said, observing the rising power of the bureaucratic elite, “A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”
― Eric Bolling, The Swamp: Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism and How Trump Can Drain It

“As the ever-classy Senator Claire McCaskill put it, men should “shut the hell up”8—”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“James A. Morone 1990 book The Democratic Wish argues, time and again in American history, the longing for political reform simply led to even bigger, more distant government and new layers of bureaucracy.”
― Eric Bolling, The Swamp: Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism and How Trump Can Drain It

“Men are turned into metrosexuals, with perfect manicures, hair just so, and colorful socks. Justin Bieber dresses and talks and wears his hair like a girl.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“Where we are today, though, is not a natural progression of a society—it is the deliberate outcome of decades of indoctrination intended to turn what used to be a nation of mavericks into a nation of sheep. We avoid risk, seek safety, and cower in corners—both real and proverbial.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“How did we get here from such noble, individualist beginnings? A conspiracy of Leftists in politics, academia, and the media have spent decades brainwashing our kids. It’s going to take time, but we can fight and win back our country for sanity, honor, and individual freedom. We can start by teaching our kids about the true nature of our nation’s beginnings, about a nation that was built by a people who fled the oppression of Europe to practice their faiths as their individual consciences demanded.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“At Yale University in 2015, some of the allegedly smartest kids in America willingly signed a petition to repeal the First Amendment.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever

“Grit is the power to try, fail, and rebuild yourself in a nation of endless possibilities. Grit is the soul of the American spirit.”
― Eric Bolling, Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great—and Why We Need Them More Than Ever