House Quote by James Carville

Pundits are no better at forecasting election outcomes than they would be at predicting the final path of a hurricane. Smart pundits should consider…

— Richard Thaler

Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones, and some of us get fooled and double-down our bets.”

— Nate Silver

Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows…

— Rick Perlstein

“mistakes subject to so discerning and public a post‐mortem as weather forecasters.”

— James E. Lovelock

Nobody believes a weather prediction twelve hours ahead. Now we're being asked to believe a prediction that goes out 100 years into the future?…

— Michael Crichton

Pundits talk as if polls are always right, but if they were, pundits wouldn't have jobs.

— Mollie Hemingway

Everybody was going along thinking that it was a day like any other day, and bang, down went the Twin Towers. Changed everything. So…

— Margaret Atwood

There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions!

— Jodi Kantor

“Predictions often give us an illusion of control in situations that are inherently out of our control. Nothing exemplifies this better than our relationship…

— Heidi Cullen