James Baker Quotes

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

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

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

Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.

Objectivity in the end is an unattainable ideal.

We would completely delegitimise what we are doing if we allow politics to interfere with our work.

I'm one of these people who doesn't say that objectivity is not within our reach. I think if you're a pro, and you're a reporter, you do it. Whether you agree with the guy or not is just quite incidental. It doesn't count at all, really.

Being government funded does not necessarily mean being biased, just like being privately funded does not necessarily mean being independent.

Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.

I'm not a partisan.

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.

Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.

The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.

My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

I am not a rabid partisan.

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

Disclosure is the antidote to partiality and favor.

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

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

Numbers are not liberal or conservative. Adjectives are partisan, not numbers.

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.

It is often remarked that I am very close to Mr. Modi. But when it comes to issues of national importance, I've never indulged in politics or considered whether the Prime Minister is from the opposition.