Quotes About Insiders

#1. Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.

Tullian Tchividjian

#2. Though Moneyball had the talents of screenwriters Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin going for it, they weren't baseball insiders.

Brad Pitt

#3. Insiders say that Trump is running for president as a publicity stunt. That's not the Donald Trump I know.

David Letterman

#4. The period of financial distress is a gradual decline after the peak of a speculative bubble that precedes the final and massive panic and crash, driven by the insiders having exited but the sucker outsiders hanging on hoping for a revivial, but finally giving up in the final collapse.

Charles P. Kindleberger

#5. The more closed the circle, the more difficult it is for 'outsiders' to break in. Their very difficulty in entering may be taken as a sign of incompetence, a sign that the insiders were right to close their ranks.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#6. Insiders say Obama's pretty comfortable around actors. He should be. He has been 'acting' like he was born in Hawaii for a long time.

Craig Ferguson

#7. Never play tips from "insiders." They can't see the forest for the trees.

Bernard Baruch

#8. I will never be an insider. I want to be the champion of people who don't have insiders and lobbyists supporting them.

Pat Quinn

#9. [G]overnment endorsement ... of religion ... sends a message to nonadherents that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community, and an accompanying message to adherents that they are insiders, favored members of the political community.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#10. Why don't the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.

Trent Reznor

#11. In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust.

Michelle Malkin

#12. State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.

Ernie Fletcher

#13. Arthur Schlesinger admits that JFK "succumbed to the fake omniscience of insiders". Prolonged immersion in the self-contained, self-justifying world of clandestinity and deception erodes the reality principle.

Garry Wills

#14. The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.

Andy Stanley

#15. Great Canadian comics are often outsiders and insiders at the same time. That's a great perspective for a comedian.

David Steinberg

#16. Attacking an outsider makes them all insiders.

Paul Graham

#17. Reg NMS was intended to create equality of opportunity in the U.S. stock market. Instead it institutionalized a more pernicious inequality. A small class of insiders with the resources to create speed were now allowed to preview the market and trade on what they had seen.

Michael Lewis

#18. Go figure out what this Scripture means: 'I'm after mercy, not religion.' I'm here to invite outsiders, not coddle insiders.

Eugene H. Peterson

#19. Socialism is not a share-the-wealth program, as the socialists would like you to believe, but a consolidate-and-control-the-wealth program for the Insiders.

Gary Allen

#20. Richard M. Nixon honestly believed in his bones that an organized conspiracy of liberal media insiders had literally been plotting against him ever since he broke Alger Hiss in 1948 (he never shifted course, and lost his soul).

Rick Perlstein

#21. I'm sure people are badmouthing me. I think one of the interesting parts about the criticism has been the tenor of "how dare he." How dare an insider speak critically about other insiders?

Mark Leibovich

#22. Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College. The Electoral College was necessary when communications were poor, literacy was low and voters lacked information about out-of-state figures, which is clearly no longer the case.

Gene Green

#23. Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.

Dani Shapiro

#24. For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for and behave in the initial chaos of a mass-casualty event.

Barton Gellman

#25. When I was young, no one wanted to be one; now even the President of the United States would call himself an outsider. So now I'm for insiders.

John Waters

#26. Politics, they all - talked to the insiders.

Mark Shields

#27. According to Washington insiders, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan could be the next official to leave the Bush administration. McClellan says he'd like to spend more time lying for his family

Amy Poehler

#28. All the pundits and D.C. insiders thought I'd never be standing on the main stage. I am and I'm going to stay there.

Carly Fiorina

#29. DSM-IV is the fabrication upon which psychiatry seeks acceptance by medicine in general. Insiders know it is more a political than scientific document ... DSM-IV has become a bible and a money making bestseller - its major failings notwithstanding.

Loren Mosher

#30. You're not here for a long time, just a good time and Insiders' Guides show you how

Yvonne Salisbury

#31. Tribeca Film Festival Doha will be both an industry festival and an audience festival, not just an event for insiders. Community outreach will be a major part of what we're doing. We'll put filmmakers in touch with local, regional, and international audiences.

Craig Hatkoff

#32. We often take for granted the notion that some people are insiders, while others are outsiders. But such a notion is a social contrivance, that, like virtually every public construct, is a legacy of a primordial and tribal mentality.

Jamake Highwater

#33. If a lot of money goes into the stock market, it'll push up prices, making money for stock speculators. Then the insiders can decide that it's time to sell out, and the market will plunge.

Michael Hudson

#34. I have been privileged to be briefed and to know that we have been visited [by aliens]. I do not have first hand experience in this regard, but I have been on investigating teams and I have been briefed by insiders who do know.

Edgar Mitchell

#35. I haven't changed - the public has. I'm an insider now, which is hilarious.

John Waters

#36. Fashion was a very insider industry then - it was very closed. So I didn't really know what I wanted to do.

Guido Palau