#pandering

You don't get real reform by pandering to every special interest. With cap and trade we wound up with a bill that didn't accomplish much, was enormously complicated and expensive. ↗

— Brian Baird

#bill #cap #complicated #enormously #every

Radio is not a partner in the industry. I think that the music industry has continued to depend upon radio, but has ended up pandering to a medium that doesn't care. ↗

— Don Rose

#continued #depend #ended #i #i think

There was polite laughter in the courtroom. Bosch noticed that the attorneys -- prosecution and defense -- dutifully joined in, a couple of them overdoing it. It had been his experience that while in open court a judge could not possibly tell a joke that the lawyers did not laugh at. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#opportunism #pandering #power #experience

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

#between #complex #creatively #critical #difficult

It just seemed the timing of it was a little bit of pandering to the public at a time of an election. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#election #just #little #little bit #pandering

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

#bring #comes #contact #corn #ethanol

If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want. ↗

— Brian Williams

#get #giving #going #pandering #people

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

— Tom Selleck

#imitation #know #much #pandering #you

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written. (Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935) ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#expectations #honesty #integrity #on-writing #pandering

I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred. ↗

— Sonny Bono

#hatred #homophobic #i #pandering