Jules Shear Quotes

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 pride myself on having a journalistic remove.

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

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

We don’t have a dog in that fight.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

During civil disturbance, adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you --- they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.

I am not a politician and I think that is a plus.

I've truly tried to be apolitical.

I belong to no party, and I am militant for no one.

I have no political affiliations and have always and do now consider myself an independent.

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

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

I'm not a political person; I'm not an activist. I'm not a guy with strong beliefs about anything. I have nothing to say to the world.

We are fundamentally politically agnostic and an apolitical organization.

I have no agenda.

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

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

I prefer to stay out of politics, really.