“Being a journalist, I'm not supposed to be the story. I'm supposed to tell the story.”— Soledad O'Brien
“There is no objectivity. Anyone who says they are objective is either a liar or a fool.”— Ted Rall
“It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how dense and how widespread is the evil.”— Lytton Strachey
“The rule of thumb is, you know, you're a journalist, you're a reporter, you're supposed to be objective.”— Wolf Blitzer
“I think the reporter's job is to be a witness to history. We're not there to moralize.”— Robert Fisk
“The myth of the detached, objective observer is a cornerstone of the ideology of science.”— Ruth Hubbard
“He who is not bigoted to any system, will be careful to found his divisions upon some real and visible distinction.”— William Kirby
“To be objective in one's conceptual activities is to be guided by the facts of reality.”— Leonard Peikoff
“The historian is not a judge of the past but a simple narrator of what happened.”— Leopold von Ranke
“We must accept the facts, even if they seem inexplicable, and we must not construct a theory in advance of the facts.”— Charles Richet
“The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts—I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.”— Max Weber