Austan Goolsbee Quotes

Like many of my friends and colleagues, I can't get enough of Obama news; latest polling, speeches, visits, reaction of world leaders.

Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

Many newspapers have become players as well as spectators in the political debate.

If Democrats don't go on Fox News, it doesn't mean that people stop watching.

I think FoxNews ratings are a reliable guide to the attitudes of the American electorate.

I will say we now, in the polling in Wisconsin, much different than many other races, the public didn't perceive that we were getting a fair shake from the media.

Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.

I'm very interested in politics, and I feel TV is a more political medium than film.

People realized that they could come on Fox News Sunday, and they would be well and fairly treated.

Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news.

The front pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times are very important in shaping what other people think. They're like writing a memo to the White House.

Television has become the primary precinct of politics.

Television is the medium through which 80 percent of the people see their leaders….They get all their information about their government and their leaders from television.

Our job is to bash the President.

I happen to think Donald Trump is crazy, but that's not an economic message.

I'm not going to say how I vote... I love that people make these assumptions about you because you work at Fox... That's my job: to be contrarian, to push people.

I think politics is always about dialogue. I think journalism ranges from dialogue to monologue, and there are times when different poles are necessary.

Do you know how many people watch Fox News in this country? There's a lot of people who watch that and there's a lot of people who voted for Donald Trump that feel that represents their view and they're happy that's represented in news somewhere even if it's in the opinion section.

Look, I think liberals have reasonable gripes with Fox News. It does lean to the right, primarily in its opinion programming but also in its story selection (which is fine by me) and elsewhere. But it's worth remembering that Fox is less a bastion of ideological conservatism and more a populist, tabloidy network.

There is a feedback loop between Trump and TV that is both good and bad.

I've watched presidential debates since I was a teen, and I love it.

When you cover the White House, which I've done on and off, it's relatively straightforward - everything the president does is news.

I never talk openly about my political beliefs.

With politics, everyone - your neighbour, acquaintances, anyone you ever meet - has an opinion. Particularly about what Arvind Kejriwal should be doing.

One thing that is for certain is that there are tens of millions of people who are deeply unsatisfied with the way they get their political news.