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Pandering to the people who have supported this industry for years is a sure way for this industry to be dead in a few years. -- Tom Brevoort
Here we go again. Pandering to the .3 percent of the American population that consider themselves transgender. Now I get to explain this to my 8-year-old, if I just wanted to watch a nice family show with some nice music. -- Gretchen Carlson
I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred. -- Sonny Bono
You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood. -- Tom Selleck
If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want. -- Brian Williams
It just seemed the timing of it was a little bit of pandering to the public at a time of an election. -- Matt Gonzalez
They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it. -- Andy Goldsworthy
You don't get real reform by pandering to every special interest. With cap and trade we wound up with a bill that didn't accomplish much, was enormously complicated and expensive. -- Brian Baird
Radio is not a partner in the industry. I think that the music industry has continued to depend upon radio, but has ended up pandering to a medium that doesn't care. -- Don Rose
Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa. -- John Sununu
There would be plenty of justification to raise revenues in order to subsidize businesses that employ low-wage workers. But there can be no justification for pandering to the economy's entire bottom half merely to attract its votes. -- Edmund Phelps
I think when Madonna did sexy stuff, she looked more in control. And I think it looked more like she was breaking boundaries. Today, it feels like it's pandering to everything that's wrong, and I don't think it's nice, especially for young girls. -- Jennifer Saunders
Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years. -- Marsha Blackburn
Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits. -- Richard Foreman
Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even into their own Web ventures. -- Neil Strauss
The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It's so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that's where you start to cheat yourself - and your fans, in the end - because there's an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone's expecting. -- The Edge
I'm blessed with three children who actually aren't terribly impressed with pandering to my ego, and one of my children has a bit of a problem with the sex scenes because when she reads the stuff, she hears my voice in her head, and apparently reading a sex scene written by your mother with her describing it is rather off-putting! -- Jennifer Fallon
I like groaning. That means that you're not pandering to their already settled prejudices. -- Bill Maher
I always say that teenagers are the first to know if you're pandering to them. -- Sarah Dessen
People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want. -- Terry Gilliam
Tolling plan is a wonderful opportunity for political pandering, and some candidates are taking full advantage of it. -- Robert James Thomson
I do miss George Bush. Compared to these teabaggers and the people who are pandering to them, he looks like a professor. -- Bill Maher
Honest people know that the road to success and virtue always involves shared sacrifice, hard work, and gratification postponed. Telling people otherwise isn't leadership, it is pandering. -- Eric Liu
Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers. -- James Stockdale
My biggest advice for women writer/directors is to always be attempting to make work that avoids pandering to the conceptions that the industry has put in place for "women directors." -- Rania Attieh
Larry Grobel's interviews are informative and insightful without being pandering or intrusive. You get the sense at all times of both intelligence at work-the interviewee's and Grobel's-both inspired by the encounter. -- David Duchovny
I'm not really that interested in pandering to an audience of people that are going to judge me before they hear me. If they hear it and don't like it, that's totally fine. -- Zooey Deschanel
I think it's all to the good that a writer shouldn't be too famous. Because, in a country where a writer may be famous, he may be pandering to the mob, celebrity and so on. -- Jorge Luis Borges
I'm not insensitive to the jobs. I'm desperately concerned about those jobs. But you don't fix them by pandering to people and telling them you're going to shut the door. You have to grow jobs. -- John F. Kerry

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