Tony Tan Quotes

I'm not beholden to one party or any special interests.

A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.

Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.

I am ready and prepared to work with the President, but I will not be a rubber stamp for any president.

I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.

The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost.

I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.

Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

I came not from within the administration, and it was clear and clear in our discussions and no one asked otherwise that I would lead this the way I thought best and I would speak the truth as we found it.

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

I think objectivity is like this strange myth that people think you're supposed to achieve, but actually, the dirty little secret is that it's not attainable any more than pure justice is attainable by the courts.

The validity of doctrine does not depend on whose ox it gores.

I think I just say what I'm thinking. And - you know, if people relate to it, they relate to it, but - I really - you know, if you really listen to me, I don't have my finger on any pulse.

There's nobody telling Oprah what to do. There's no one telling David Letterman what he can and can't do. You've got to have 100 percent support from everybody who's behind the show, across the board.

If people like something you've done - or don't like it - this shouldn't determine what you write or how you write it. Those are two separate things entirely: your work and the world's response to it.

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

My role in the business is to use my judgment. All these years of experience have given me a clear head, and I can give a nonpartisan view with a sense of distance.

What is important to me is that I'm not accountable to and not controlled by party leadership. At the end of the day, I'm able to make my own decisions according to what's best for the community and the constituents I represent. It doesn't depend on what the partisanship is to the right or to the left.

I'm completely free of the ill effects of factional influence.

Say, oh well, the Republicans don't like this therefor I shouldn't do it. What kind of a government would that be. We're not a parliamentary system.

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don't want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.

The Federal Reserve is answerable to no one.

I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.