Top 45 Pundits Quotes

I think I speak for all the pundits when I say we are just giving an opinion. I am asked to give an opinion based on my experiences in football and based on what I see out on the pitch.

In 1967, London Weekend Television asked me to head up their sports coverage. I got to work with guys like Brian Moore and Dickie Davies. We were the first ones to come up with the idea of the pundits’ panel. Although, since I was one of the pundits, it’s debatable how good an idea that was.

Criticism certainly doesn’t affect my life, and whatever the pundits have called me, I’m sure they have been called a lot worse in their day.

I tend not to listen to pundits.

Pundits talk about ‘populist rage’ as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.

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.

Twitter is the most impulsive form of social media, but it’s still the most celebrated among politicians and pundits within the Beltway, which is curious, since it can destroy any sense of privacy.

Trump is a populist in the same mold as the nineteenth-century Populists who gave their name to American grassroots political movements. Historians and pundits argued themselves blue in the face over whether Populists were reactionary or progressive, but they were both.

Pundits are no better at forecasting election outcomes than they would be at predicting the final path of a hurricane. Smart pundits should consider either abandoning this activity or consulting with the geeks before rendering their guesses.

Pundits will be pundits. We don’t think too much of the punditry.

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.

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.

Nobody likes me. I know that the Holland boss, Ronald Koeman, appreciates me. But for pundits, TV commentators and in the media, I don’t even exist.

I’m sick of pundits. Don’t get me wrong. I love the guests I have on every day. I love their energy and smarts and sass. But I’m sick of pundits because they don’t always have their ears to the ground.

Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require.

I listen to these pundits all the time breaking down Trump – ‘He’s brash, and he’s bold, and he’s successful‘ – and none of those are what it is. There’s one word to sum it up, and it’s courage. He has courage.

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.

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.

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.

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.’

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.

You know, I’m a comedian the same as Bill Maher and Jon Stewart. We all came up the same way. The three of us have interest in politics; I call us fundits, we’re fundits! We’re not pundits!

If pro athletes and entertainers want to freelance as political pundits, then they should not be surprised when they’re called out for insulting politicians.

Many pundits have never understood how the traditional Republican voter could ever vote for Trump, much less be so unfailingly loyal to him. Pence is the embodiment of the answer to that question.

Not every conservative Christian is a dominionist, but to say a movement doesn’t exist, as some pundits and journalists have, without even being able to say what it is in an op-ed is just irresponsible… The big story is that the religious right isn’t dead.

The central thesis of the American failure in Afghanistan – the one you’ll hear from politicians and pundits and even scholars – was succinctly propounded by Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage: ‘The war in Iraq drained resources from Afghanistan before things were under control‘.

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.

Footballers, managers, pundits and fans make up possibly the biggest tribe of them all, especially in this country. Whatever is said by pundits is echoed across sofas and in pubs all over the nation.

The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It’s sort of like an echo chamber.

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.

One day I was watching some pundits screaming at each other on a news show. It suddenly reminded me of this painting on my wall, of balloons with goofy faces rising – pundits screaming at each other and arguing off into the ether.

Parents, teachers, professors, economists, pundits, entrepreneurs, tinkerers and misfits all have to do a better job of unapologetically singing the praises of capitalism and free markets which unequivocally demonstrate the ability to pull people out of poverty and improve and lengthen their lives.

Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.

You have pundits and fans from other teams who will say loads of things and it goes past me. That’s life.

Forget the consultants, the pundits and the pollsters; good policy is good politics.

Before acquiring a project, take the advice of experienced trade pundits in the industry and analyse the risks and business propositions thoroughly.

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.

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators ‘the haute couture of language.’

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.

Trump did not reverse a policy that allows the mentally ill to purchase firearms as reporters, media pundits and anti-Second Amendment activists have recklessly claimed. Instead, he’s given millions of individuals their constitutional rights back.

The people, the fans, the pundits, the people who watch on TV, they are the judges.

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.

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?

Like most of us, Joe Biden has had moments when he’s led the league in mistakes or verbal gaffes. The difference is his were on a public stage where explanations are almost always made out by pundits to be excuses.

The pollsters and pundits will keep trying to read voters’ minds.