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Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require. -- Elliott Abrams
Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class. -- Elizabeth Warren
Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful. -- Sarah Palin
Pundits are saying that President Obama is starting to lose support among his own party. To give you an idea of how bad it's gotten, today Jimmy Carter compared him to Jimmy Carter. -- Jay Leno
When infuriated by an outrageous column, do not be suckered into responding with an abusive e-mail. Pundits so targeted thumb through these red-faced electronic missives with delight, saying 'Hah! Got to 'em.' -- William Safire
But you know the second month I was here I put out a healthy lifestyles directive. The pundits will say it was because we were sued. Well that's what they say. It was never about that. -- Jim Cantalupo
Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads. -- Denis Leary
For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning. -- John Thorn
There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they're every bit the celebrity and a lot of them aren't any more qualified than the average man on the street. -- Kevin Bacon
I'm being invaded by fashion pundits. -- Steven Cojocaru
I never wanted to be a pundit. -- Robert MacNeil
I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits. -- Daniel Okrent
I'm a right-wing pundit and have been for many years. -- William Safire
The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy. -- Norman Mailer
Within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible. -- Sarah Palin
Most of the pressure comes from myself, not from others. I don't need a manager or a pundit to put pressure on me. I do all that myself before others do it. -- Ruud van Nistelrooy
The Democrats were crushed in the midterm elections. The Republican juggernaut pounded the Democrats, and the pundits say they will not really know what happened to the Democrats until they find the black box. -- David Letterman
The widespread belief among politicians and pundits is that high test scores are everything. I strongly disagree. What matters most is character. Working hard, treating others with respect and honesty-those are the keys to success. -- Hal Urban
Scientists are used to debating with one another about the finer points of new research. But increasingly, they find themselves battling their televisions and computer screens, which transmit ever-more-heated rhetoric from politicians, pundits, and other public figures who misinterpret, misrepresent, and malign scientific results. -- Lewis M. Branscomb
Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there. -- William Safire
I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and theres a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that. -- Lance Ito
What to do when the market goes down? Read the opinions of the investment gurus who are quoted in the WSJ. And, as you read, laugh. We all know that the pundits can't predict short-term market movements. Yet there they are, desperately trying to sound intelligent when they really haven't got a clue. -- Jonathan Clements
Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They try to derive from the works of the past a code of rules with which, as they fancy, the writers and artists of the future should comply. But the genius does not cooperate with the pundit. -- Ludwig von Mises
Many politicians and pundits claim that the credit crunch and high mortgage foreclosure rate is an example of market failure and want government to step in to bail out creditors and borrowers at the expense of taxpayers who prudently managed their affairs. These financial problems are not market failures but government failure. ... The credit crunch and foreclosure problems are failures of government policy. -- Walter E. Williams
Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident. -- Daniel Kahneman
Forget the consultants, the pundits and the pollsters; good policy is good politics. -- Jim DeMint
The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity. -- Moby
Many American pundits and foreign policy experts love to depict themselves as crusaders for human rights, but it almost always takes the form of condemning other governments, never their own. -- Glenn Greenwald
Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it's interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make predictions, and a year later people won't remember them. -- Daniel Kahneman
Americans have a lower opinion of Congress than they do of the NFL replacement refs, head lice, traffic jams, cockroaches and even the group to which yours truly belongs - Washington political pundits. -- Juan Williams
For years in football I was angry with the game, angry with pundits and, a lot of the time, angry with the journalists writing about me. All that changed when I got my break in movies. -- Vinnie Jones
Some pundits have proposed that the aliens have come here to breed with us. Apparently, too much bike riding or something similar has rendered them incapable of reproducing within their own species. But do extraterrestrial infants toddle through your neighborhood? -- Seth Shostak
What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. -- William Blum
I'm steeped in the news because I enjoy the news - I like reading papers, I like reading the blogs, I love talking to newsmakers and pundits, for that matter, about their opinions. I'm an information gatherer by nature, so that's what attracted me about this industry. -- Megyn Kelly
Politicians or pundits can distort or cherry-pick climate science any way they want to try and gain temporary influence with the public. But any serious industrialist who's facing 'climate exposure' - as it's now called by money managers - cannot afford to engage in that sort of self-delusion. -- Clive Thompson
I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there's a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that. -- Lance Ito
The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance; the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking. -- Henry Rollins
You know, the Tea Party is a - first of all, it is a significant movement, and I think the media and some pundits have tried to write it off as a bunch of cranks or something. But, in fact, it's really a very legitimate and fairly significant swath of voters out there. -- Mark McKinnon
Government or politics in America today is big business. Everybody makes money involving themselves in one way or the other, whether it's pollsters, whether they are policy wonks, whether they are pundits, whether they are those who believe that they must call it as they see it and then to be fair about it. -- Douglas Wilder
The GOP grows more and more unpopular with female voters seemingly every time one of its leaders gets in front of a microphone. Misogynist is as misogynist does. The GOP and its bloviating pundits don't like women and they are unable to hide it, nor do they seem to make much attempt to do so. -- Henry Rollins
When those of Jewish blood exhibit moral or intellectual superiority, genius or special talent, we feel pride in them, even if they have abjured the faith like Spinoza, Marx, Disraeli or Heine. Despite the meditations of pundits or the decrees of council, our own instincts and acts, and those of others, have defined for us the term 'Jew.' -- Louis D. Brandeis
If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.' -- Ben Carson
I know the pundits don't agree with me. -- Jan Brewer
Conservative pundits have a remarkable amount of free speech. -- Michael Pare
What the pundits call wishy-washiness, the Bible calls repentance. -- David Dark
What the pundits call wishy-washiness, the Bible calls repentance." -- David Dark
I know the pundits, they get big bucks for . . . pundating. -- Fred Thompson
Defy the pundits again and reach for a high voter turnout that'll shock the establishment. -- Bernie Sanders
I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.' -- Anna Deavere Smith
Political pundits are saying President George W. Bush has made gains in two key states: dazed and confused. -- David Letterman
I feel that what mathematics needs least are pundits who issue prescriptions or guidelines for presumably less enlightened mortals. -- Armand Borel
It's all these pundits, all these consultants, and the candidates, as if they're in a bubble leaving democracy off-limits. -- Ralph Nader
I speak for Kashmiri pundits because injustice has been done to them, and the political discourse doesn't give them enough importance. -- Anupam Kher
No matter what the shrinks, or the pundits, or the self-help books tell you, when it comes to love, it's luck. -- Woody Allen
The nice thing about political pundits is that, when they answer a question, one no longer understands what they were asked. -- Indro Montanelli
Getting inequality out there into the consciousness was important. All these political pundits now talking about the 2014 and 2016 elections are talking about inequality. -- Edward Snowden
All the pundits and D.C. insiders thought I'd never be standing on the main stage. I am and I'm going to stay there. -- Carly Fiorina
This business of saying the same thing over and over and over again "? which to a lot of Washington insiders and pundits is boring "? works. -- Michael Deaver
In 2002, a lot of the pundits didn't get the off-year elections right. In 2004, a lot of people thought I was going down eight days before the election. -- George W. Bush
Most pundits regard an election year session as an opportunity for the two parties to frame issues and garner political advantage in advance of the approaching election. -- Bob Ehrlich
Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don't have any discipline in how they look at the world, and so it leads to a lot of bullshit, basically, -- Nate Silver
The only people who don't love apps are pundits who don't understand that apps aren't really in opposition to the open Internet. They're just superior clients to open Internet services. -- John Gruber
Though pundits and politicians, weary of the story, are happy to omit facts about voting systems and their private contractors running our public elections, such omissions impair voters and democracy itself. -- Mimi Kennedy
In today's America He (Jesus) has moved from the central figure of world history to source material for late-night comics and pundits who would not dare treat other religious leaders with such disrespect. -- David Jeremiah
Outsourcing isn't the answer to everything. Lots of internet marketing pundits will tell you to outsource, outsource, outsource. Having a trusted team that knows each other and enjoys working together is good, too. -- Ian Lurie
One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters -- Walter Isaacson
One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters. -- Walter Isaacson
Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say. -- Jeanette Winterson

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