James Haskell Quotes

I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice.

I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

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

I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.

I will not vote for - and no senator should vote for - anyone who will not render justice impartially.

I think you go into a debate trying to be fair minded and trying to be balanced but occasionally there will be a sense where it feels like the moral imperative is pulling you one direction or another.

The promoter of an event can't take sides. He can't give better conditions to one fighter over the other. Everyone has to be treated with quality.

The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just.

God is no respecter of persons or causes.

The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.

Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

… without animus or partiality.

No party is, on the whole, better than another.

I'm always a little happier if the court stays somewhat in the center.

You learn not to get attached to one side .... You take both sides.

Do not favor the poor or show deference to the rich; judge your neighbor fairly.

May I never sit on a tribunal where my friends shall not find more favor from me than strangers.

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

I have ever had the single aim of justice in view. No judge who is influenced by any other consideration is fit for the bench. 'Do equal and exact justice,' is my motto, and I have often said to the grand jury, 'Permit no innocent man to be punished, but let no guilty man escape.'

A judge is supposed to have empathy for no one but simply to follow the law.

One of the things I believe strongly in is developing institutions - legal, press, bureaucracies, academies - that are rooted in the pursuit of impartial truth. That aren't simply just bent to partisan ends or are corrupted for the powerful or for other ulterior motives.