Margarita Simonyan Quotes

It helps to have “has beens” on commissions because they have no political ax to grind.

I'm very partisan, but I'm also very fair.

The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

I'm literally an independent. Apolitical. So that I am not always going to be with the Left's perceived interests or the Right's perceived interests.

Being of no party, I shall offend all parties:—never mind! My words at least, are more sincere and hearty Than if I sought to sail before the wind.

I am not a politician and I think that is a plus.

I want to have a media platform that is an honest broker and not just a mouthpiece for a political party.

We would completely delegitimise what we are doing if we allow politics to interfere with our work.

I am not as partisan as people think I am.

The decision to serve needs to be independent of your politics.

I'm not a partisan.

There's a problem with political polling in that you have so much pressure to do what your client wants you to do and say what your client wants you to say. I've never felt that pressure. I am independent of the political parties.

The point I'm trying to make is, I'm really quite neutral. I have not been conditioned.

The journalistic code of ethics governing the broadcasts requires that opposing views be presented, and that journalists' personal opinions or judgments be left out of factual reporting.

I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.

I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.

It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects.

I'd never compromise my position as a journalist by having a friendly relationship with a politician.

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

I am not a rabid partisan.

This isn’t a religion, it’s a political party. So there are times I agree and times I disagree …. I don’t think you sacrifice your … integrity and ability to do your job to a political party.

Sworn to no party, Of no sect am I; I won't keep quiet And I will not lie.