Sandy Berger Quotes

I wish at all events to retain at all times a judicial habit of not condemning a thing utterly until I have heard what is to be said for it.

I don't judge anybody until I meet them.

I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.

Objectivity in the end is an unattainable ideal.

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

Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.

I come to every case with an open mind. Every case is new to me.

In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it's not fair.

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

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.

I don't prejudge issues. I come to every case with an open mind. Every case is new to me.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

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

You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.

When we can see things as they are, without projecting our mental models and fears, we are being objective. When we can understand and consider another person's point of view, we are being objective.

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.

Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.

It sounds funny, but I always try to keep an open mind about what I'm writing about. Sometimes I squeak my opinions in there, but generally I don't. I try to be objective about things that I'm writing about.

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

I do not intend to prejudge the past.

If you would be a good judge, hear what every one says.

No one is a good judge in his own cause.

I'm not going to vote for or against somebody because they're old or young.