Pundits Quotes

• I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Film

• Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory, Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight.

  

  David Hackett Fischer
  • Grief
  • Greater
  • Opposite

• Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violence, and rock music for making kids take drugs and kill themselves. These things should be the least of our worries. The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no 'normal,' because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• It turns out pundits don’t want to talk about what’s happened; they want to use what’s happened to talk about the same things they talk about every day.

  

  Hank Green
  • Pundits

• I'm a right-wing pundit and have been for many years.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Years
  • Wings
  • Pundits

• 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
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Beautiful

• Let there be a special place in Hell for pundits who make predictions.

  

  Rick Perlstein
  • Special
  • Predictions
  • Pundits

• 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.'

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Education
  • Television
  • Issues

• What the pundits call wishy-washiness, the Bible calls repentance.

  

  David Dark
  • Repentance
  • Calls
  • Pundits

• 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
  • Character
  • Success
  • Belief

• Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen.

  

  Simon Mawer
  • Write
  • Novelist
  • Blank