Campbell Brown Quotes

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

There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start.

A liberal is someone who is so open-minded that he won’t even take his own side in an argument.

People are so conditioned to take sides that a balanced analysis looks to them like hatred.

I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on the readers and try to lead them to a conclusion. As a reader, I understand what a fair report is.

I can't stand people who are backward. I am honest, straightforward. I don't like to pretend. And I will not change either.

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

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

There are still personalities that you bond with or a fighting spirit that you connect with, but as a host you have to stay impartial and root for all of them.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.

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

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

To me, it's a heroic attribute to be so committed to a principle that you apply it, not when it's easy, not when it supports your position, not when it protects people you like, but when it defends and protects people that you hate.

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

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.

I might like somebody, and have to go interview somebody that hates them, but I still have to be fair.

All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.

I do not intend to prejudge the past.

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

Sworn to no party, Of no sect am I; I won't keep quiet And I will not lie.

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 do not impugn the motives of any one opposed to me

Being unbiased is a lot like being humble: as soon as you think you are, you aren’t. Neither are a finite state of being but a continuous struggle to not allow our perspectives poison our opinions.

I love giving you my opinion, but I don't like taking sides.