“The truth is, we all have biases. The question is whether we let them dictate our reporting.”— Cokie Roberts
“The mature person is one who is able to be objective about himself and his own behavior.”— Anthony Storr
“What is called 'objectivity,' scientific for instance (in which I firmly believe, in a given situation), is grounded in a primordial subjectivity.”— Jacques Derrida
“To history has been assigned the office of judging the past, of instructing the present for the benefit of future ages. To such high offices this work does not aspire: It wants only to show what actually happened.”— Leopold von Ranke
“I am not a person who is a doctrinaire person, who has an agenda that she is trying to advance.”— Diane P. Wood
“I'm interested in things which suggest the world rather than express the personality.”— Jasper Johns
“We shall endeavor to record facts on every public and proper subject, stripped of prejudice and passion.”— James Gordon Bennett Sr.
“We may try to see things as objectively as we please. None the less, we can never see them with any eyes except our own.”— Benjamin Cardozo
“Unanimity of opinion may be fitting for a church, for the frightened or greedy victims of some myth, or for the weak and willing followers of some tyrant. Variety of opinion is necessary for objective knowledge.”— Paul Feyerabend
“We are not concerned with what is right or wrong, or what is good or bad. We are concerned with what is.”— Alfred Kinsey
“My job is to provide the president with the best possible intelligence, the most objective analysis, regardless of which way the policy winds are blowing.”— John Negroponte