Erik Larson Quotes

There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved.

As a journalist, you don't tend to interview people with a view to becoming their friend. You can't expect that. It's not professional.

Judges have to be neutral, but they don't have to be eunuchs.

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona.

You can say I give you this information as a dispassionate observer.

You can't play someone and judge them at the same time.

I try not to make it personal, and I don't care about partisan politics one way or the other.

I think the idea of journalists being neutral is very important.

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.

I'm sometimes embarrassed by how clinical I can become when I'm out reporting.

I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.

I try to tell the story, always. I do not want to be part of it.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

I think judicial temperament is a willingness to step back from your own committed views of the correct jurisprudential approach and evaluate those views in terms of your role as a judge. It's the difference between being a judge and being a law professor.

… without animus or partiality.

I am as dispassionate as it is possible for a human being to be and not be a machine.

In this business, you can't get too attached to something.

Professionally and personally, I try to be as agnostic as possible, try to see things as objectively as possible.

I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.

We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can no longer trust our professors to do the same.