Quotes About Analysis

When it comes to politics, comedians read between the lines and see hypocrisies and half-truths. And we report those things to regular people who go, 'I noticed that, too!' or 'You're right, that doesn't make sense!'

Guys pay extra attention to detail. They are looking at every little thing on the scouting report.

I find I process the news by listening to someone else's report.

As the president's principal intelligence advisor, I would ensure that all intelligence is collected analyzed and reported without bias, prejudice or political influence.

When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.

Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.

Folks really need to be very cautious about overanalyzing or overparsing what I've said to this reporter or that reporter.

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

Political reporters and political professionals rushed to judgment against Romney because we crave clear, unambiguous story lines.

I tend to gravitate toward reporters who cover all aspects of the story: from personal aspects to the big picture that answer the 'so what' of a story.

I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions!

I think the commentarian has taken over, so now what you get is a lot less reporting and more opinion.

Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects.

Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.

You don't need Math to do business reporting. Business is all about choices that consumers make.

It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.

The message for the smart investor is to watch out. Do not get carried away with news reports and turn smart by pooling information with like-minded investors.

ESPN is all meat and potatoes. It's pretty much scouting reports. There isn't a great deal of humor, and when there is, it's pretty sophomoric.

All the in-depth scouting reports we have on the opposing pitchers - just kind of learning how to study that, it's huge.

The savvy investor is one who does not believe every rumor on the street and learns to read between the lines of newspaper reports.

In order to predict effectively, we need to use science. And the reason that we need to use science is because then we can reproduce what we're doing; it's not just wisdom or guesswork. And if we can predict, then we can engineer the future.

I think I'm becoming a psychologist in explaining the Republican Party. It's the only way you can explain 'em. It's psychological.

Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren't looking at the facts.

Sometimes Republicans engage in number-crunching analysis that doesn't always take the neediest into account.