Impartiality Quotes

“I think it is very important for the intelligence community to be apolitical.”

“My goal was always to be fair, to be impartial, and to apply the law as written, not as I wished it to be.”

“My job is to be impartial and to ask the tough questions.”

“I've always believed that you should be objective, and that you should report what you see, and you shouldn't get involved.”

“A judge can't have any agenda. A judge can't have any ideology. A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case.”

“We have to be journalists, and we have to be observers, and we have to be independent, and we have to be impartial. But we also have to be human beings.”

“I have no friends to reward, no enemies to punish.”

“The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be the popular theme of the day.”

“A judge who is swayed by public opinion is not a judge.”

“I think it is a mistake for any judge... to start taking a look at public opinion polls.”

“When you’re the speaker, you’re the speaker of the whole House. You’re not the speaker of your party.”

“By the discharge of my official duty, I shall pay no respect to persons.”

“I don't have strong political views. I'm a floating voter, which I think is a good thing for a journalist.”

“The role of a legislator is to be an umpire.”

“We cannot and will not allow the FBI to become a political organization.”

“There is no such thing as a hometown decision.”

“Contrary to what some have said, my decisions are guided not by party politics but by the law.”

“Judges are not politicians, even when they come to the bench by a political process.”

“The truth is that we all have our priors. We all have our beliefs. We all have our values.”

“What my political views or my political preferences are is something that I would withhold; it's not something that I would share.”