Maria Bartiromo Quotes

When someone is trying to interpret something for you, they always have an agenda.

The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer's main motivation is to become friends with the band. They're not really journalists; they're people who want to be involved in rock and roll.

It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.

IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

I’ve never found the truth to be fair and balanced.

vested interest

Everybody has an agenda.

Do not engage to find things as you think they are.

Be suspicious of your sincerity when you are the advocate of that upon which your livelihood depends.

In practice, the goal of skepticism is not the discovery of truth, but the exposure of other people's errors. It plays a useful role in science, religion, scholarship, and common sense. But we need to remember that it is a weapon serving belief or self-interest; we need to be skeptical of skeptics. The more militant the skeptic, the stronger the belief.

Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.

When people write about someone else, you have to take it with a pinch of salt.

We do ourselves a disservice when we self-servingly massage the record.

I know we journalists have a reputation for being cynics. We do. It's our job to question - everything.

We are entering an age where people can claim to know more about what really happened than the people who were there. Where people will dismiss eyewitness accounts, on the basis of their gut feelings; where they will refute scientific discoveries because the scientist just doesn't look trustworthy.

I don't think it's good to interact with people with a certain agenda in mind.

People want to see the world the way they want to see it, not the way it is.

When you're getting your facts from people, consider the way that they are being given to you.

When we make decisions based on factors other than the available empirical evidence, we are less than objective, which means we are no longer acting as scientists.

Two sides to a story exist when evidence exists on both sides of a position. Then, reasonable people may disagree about how to weigh that evidence and what conclusion to form from it. Everyone, of course, is entitled to their own opinion.

I want to explore for myself and keep an open mind. There is a stigma of being a flat earther and if I'm going to do it I want to know the facts.

I think that as reporters we certainly bring to bear our own set of experiences, our backgrounds, to our reporting.

You have to be open-minded, and you have to be critical, and you have to let go of your predispositions about what you've been told that doesn't have foundations in evidence.

When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.