Impartiality Quotes

“I'm not a political comedian. I don't take sides. I make fun of everybody.”

“We don’t pontificate. We don’t have any editorial position. We don’t have any ax to grind.”

“It is not the role of the director to be a political person.”

“It is important that we have a Supreme Court that is not seen as a political arm of any one party.”

“I have not brought to this court a basket of feminist goodies.”

“Judges are not politicians.”

“A newspaper should have no friends.”

“The chairman should be impartial in all his rulings.”

“All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.”

“If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you're not always going to like the conclusions you reach.”

“You can't be a good commissioner if you're a good friend to all 30 owners.”

“The idea of justice demands impartiality, but impartiality is not neutrality.”

“Some people tell me that we professional observers are supposed to be impartial. I don't believe it.”

“We're not opinion people. We don't do opinion.”

“My job is to be an honest broker of information, to be as transparent as possible, to give you the facts as we know them and let you decide.”

“I get it, that some of our opinion people feel fervently about this. I don't. I'm a reporter.”

“It is the judge's duty to be impartial and to be patient, to be courteous and to be kind.”

“There is no place for partisan politics in the conduct of the public's business in the Department of Justice.”

“We are a nation of laws, not of men, and as judges, we must apply the law as it is written, not as we would wish it to be.”

“My job is to be an umpire and not a player on the field.”