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Quotes About Pandering

The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted.
~ Timothy Noah
While Joe Biden continues to pander to campaign donors and extremist environmentalists, I'll continue to fight for jobs and the people of Colorado's Third District.
~ Lauren Boebert
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
Pandering candidates often promise that they can make the pain go away.
~ Gail Collins
People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want.
~ Terry Gilliam
If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.
~ Brian Williams
It's the logical consequence of removing valuable artefacts from native cultures. This sort of pandering to American greed, at the expense of the dignity and self-determination of the cultures concerned, is certain to cause long-term results—
~ Genevieve Cogman
Democrats have chosen not to defend the Marine Corps, but to pander to anti-war protesters and Berkeley officials that are actively trying to impede military recruitment.
~ Jim DeMint
Should I pander to your.....incompetence so you'll feel better? I don't think so.
~ Christopher Paolini
Our pandering politicians compete to add names to the dependency of entitlement rolls instead of evaluating the success of these programs by how many people leave the dole and are restored to an independence. And these bulging entitlements are saddling our offspring with unsustainable generational debt.
~ Ben Sasse
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
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
Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste.
~ Bill Watterson
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
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and you like what you like. But I felt like with 'Pride,' certainly when it was released in America, there were certain things that went on with the marketing where I though we're pandering to whatever the vibe is of that area.
~ Faye Marsay
Christian audiences, I think, have grown very tired of movies that try to pander to them.
~ John Lee Hancock
It seemed like the military was stalling, and the president wasn't challenging this tactic out of fear of upsetting conservatives. (Not until Obama's second term would the administration painfully come to realize the futility of pandering to people who would never meet them halfway.)
~ Unknown