Sebastian Junger Quotes

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

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

I am not a rabid partisan.

I'm a liberal, but I'm not biased. Seriously.

You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.

I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

I'm not a partisan.

I think I've earned a reputation of being fair and that I'll hear all sides from the entire political spectrum.

I am a bit of a lefty on some issues.

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

I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.

I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.

A liberal is a man who's too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Objectivity in the end is an unattainable ideal.

The good journalist is never objective. He is always neutral.

You could say that any book that takes a position is not fair, unless you keep saying, 'On the one hand, on the other...' and take a great deal of trouble to present both sides. That kind of journalism tends not to be very interesting.

I'm not here to judge. We don't know what Trump can do.

I've truly tried to be apolitical.

Politics is my second passion, but as a historian, you have to be genuinely neutral. You have failed in your primary duty as a historian if you are one side or the other.

You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.

Neutrality works well in my district.

I don't want to do a rabidly left-wing show. I think it's much more interesting to turn the knife on yourself.

I consider myself neither liberal nor conservative when it comes to foreign policy.

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