Bernard Goldberg Quotes

In the United States of Entertainment there is no greater sin than to bore the audience

I know real people, whose names I could tell you, people I know who have said 'I've stopped buying the New York Times.' Why? Because their editorial position has filtered, has leached into the news pages.

I didn't say one negative word about poor people or about middle-class people or anything else. All I said was that the rich deserve our gratitude.

I mean, I think everybody realizes that calling people racist is a waste of time; nobody buys it anymore.

You don't smear somebody as a racist when there is obviously nothing there.

We need to build a beautiful granite and bronze monument in our nation's capital to honor American heroes, unsung American heroes. And those unsung American heroes are the rich.

The big 3 networks don't like the fact that there's a Rush Limbaugh out there, they don't like the fact that there's a Fox News, they don't like the fact that there's a Matt Drudge. They liked it when it was nice, when it was just the three of them. Well, it ain't that way anymore.

The fact is television doesn't simply reflect society's values. In important ways, it also legitimizes them. And more and more in recent decades it has made even the most dubious "values" and behaviors seem normal and routine.

Journalists love to show their compassion.

I have met guys who work the overnight shift at 7-11, selling Slurpees and Camels to insomniacs who have more introspection than a lot of people in the mainstream media.

We in the press like to say we're honest brokers of information, and it's just not true. The press does have an agenda.

As a matter of fact, you know, Jesus probably would be, except for one or two issues, a liberal Democrat if he were around today.

There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.

Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.

The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.

I admire Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly a lot because I think they're standup guys.

Circumstantial evidence is evidence.

I've never seen class warfare as nasty as it is today, as a result of tax debate.

I worked with these liberal elites for 28 years at CBS News, and they were always throwing around the term 'white trash,' by which they meant poor southerners who didn't go to Harvard. I'm not sure why that makes them trash.

I respect the Kennedy family. I respect their service. They do a tremendous amount of good. You don't blame the children for the sins of the father and all of that.

A lot of so-called rich, according to this legislation, make $250,000. That's a lot of money, but it is not rich.