Pandering Quotes

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Any man who tells the people what they want to hear is usually pretty popular

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.

I gave Romney some advice. I said “Mitt, just relax and be one of your selves.”

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

The politician must always tell people what they want to hear.

You never can say too much in praise of your country and its inhabitants. Two nations in Europe are really almost ridiculous in their own exaggerated praises of themselves; these are the English and the French.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

I am not a politician. A politician is someone who does things to get elected. He's a guy who says things to please the public, that he thinks the public wants to hear, and his story changes with every passing day. I want to be elected, but I am not going to say a damn thing for your benefit, or that person's benefit out there on the street, or anybody's

I will not change my beliefs to win votes. I will offer a choice, not an echo.

Highly popular and unpopular Presidents do not engage in policy pandering.

Party politics in modern democratic society means pandering to a wide variety of different groups and sympathizing with their often quite base motives, such as revenge, power, booty, and spoils, to maintain the necessary level of support.

I personally think artists should criticize the government as much as possible since, unlike politicians, they do not have to obtain votes.

All you have to do is anesthetize the masses by telling them they’re an elite, that they’ve got a mission, that they’re making history, that they’re fulfilling their destiny and fighting for a better world — and they swallow it like lambs — even when a guttersnipe says it.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

… because … gerrymandering makes the districts less competitive, candidates are freed to pander to their bases while ignoring moderate and independent voters. More ever, politicians who do not pander face primary challenges from ideologically purer candidates.

How come regional pandering only works in one direction, right? You never see a Southern politician trying to win votes in New York State by saying, 'I read books and make a mean vegan meatloaf.'

I think that young people - teenagers, college-age people, anyone under the age of 30 - know when they're being pandered to.

I court not the votes of the fickle mob.

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flattered.

I want you to overcome ‘em with yeses, undermine ‘em with grins, agree ‘em to death and destruction.

You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood.