Top 30 Bernard Goldberg Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Circumstantial evidence is evidence.”

— Bernard Goldberg

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

— Bernard Goldberg

3. “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.”

— Bernard Goldberg

4. “I have a big problem when the sanctimonious, holier than thou congressmen and women go on national television for six hours and beat somebody up with a stick, and not because I’m ‘Ms. Manners.’ That’s not what bothers me. People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.”

— Bernard Goldberg

5. “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.”

— Bernard Goldberg

6. “I don’t believe all rich people are selfless philanthropists.”

— Bernard Goldberg

7. “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.”

— Bernard Goldberg

8. “The most meaningless term in the English language is ‘I take full responsibility.’ When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.”

— Bernard Goldberg

9. “Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.”

— Bernard Goldberg

10. “No, we don’t sit around in dark corners and plan strategies on how we’re going to slant the news. We don’t have to. It comes naturally to most reporters.”

— Bernard Goldberg

11. “You don’t smear somebody as a racist when there is obviously nothing there.”

— Bernard Goldberg

12. “Don’t pretend to be a journalist if you’re not a journalist.”

— Bernard Goldberg

13. “Bill Maher fancies himself the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce.”

— Bernard Goldberg

14. “Try to imagine an America without rich people. Rich people contribute a lot to this country.”

— Bernard Goldberg

15. “Journalists love to show their compassion.”

— Bernard Goldberg

16. “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.”

— Bernard Goldberg

17. “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.”

— Bernard Goldberg

18. “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.”

— Bernard Goldberg

19. “A lot of people who voted for Barack Obama expected and were led to expect something new in politics: a new tone of political discourse in Washington. And I think – I think they’re disappointed, because Barack Obama is not a new kind of politician. In fact, he’s an old Chicago politician.”

— Bernard Goldberg

20. “There’s a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.”

— Bernard Goldberg

21. “I don’t think liberals in the media are really that much different from liberals outside the media.”

— Bernard Goldberg

22. “I’ve never seen class warfare as nasty as it is today, as a result of tax debate.”

— Bernard Goldberg

23. “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.”

— Bernard Goldberg

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

— Bernard Goldberg

25. “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.”

— Bernard Goldberg

26. “I admire Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly a lot because I think they’re standup guys.”

— Bernard Goldberg

27. “Liberals, many of them, not all of them, but many of them are obsessed with race. They see everything through a filter of race.”

— Bernard Goldberg

28. “I said that liberals think people who live in the middle of the country are a bunch of jerks, and obviously all liberals don’t think that. But I will tell you what, an awful lot of liberal elites think that.”

— Bernard Goldberg

29. “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.”

— Bernard Goldberg

30. “Dennis Prager got it right: “If we continue to teach about tolerance and intolerance instead of good and evil, we will end up with tolerance of evil.”

— Bernard Goldberg

31. “Except for talk radio, liberals pretty much control the culture.”

— Bernard Goldberg

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

— Bernard Goldberg

33. “You know, I was at CBS News for 28 years. I may have run an unidentified source. Frankly, I don’t remember.”

— Bernard Goldberg

34. “In the United States of Entertainment there is no greater sin than to bore the audience.”

— Bernard Goldberg