Glenn Beck

When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.

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.

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

I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring.

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.

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

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.

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'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.

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.