Al Yankovic Quotes

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.

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

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

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

It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona.

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

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.

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

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

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.

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

There's nothing better than a good, blind referee.

The point I'm trying to make is, I'm really quite neutral. I have not been conditioned.

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

I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

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.

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

You have to approach something with indifference, as if you had no aesthetic emotion. The choice of readymades is always based on visual indifference and, at the same time, on the total absence of good or bad taste.

As a writer, I've tried to avoid strong opinions about morality. You just want to present things as they are and let the viewer come to their own conclusion.

Don't denounce, just state the facts.

Disclosure is the antidote to partiality and favor.

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

It helps to have “has beens” on commissions because they have no political ax to grind.

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics