Dalai Lama Quotes

I've truly tried to be apolitical.

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

Religion should cut politically left and right and not be politically predictable or loyally partisan.

We are fundamentally politically agnostic and an apolitical organization.

Partisanship is not part of my professional makeup.

To be nonpartisan doesn't mean we're nonpolitical.

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.

I'm not particularly political. I'm not particularly denominational. I'm not worried about any of that.

If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.

Recognizing truth requires selflessness. You have to leave yourself out of it so you can find out the way things are in themselves, not the way they look to you or how you feel about them or how you would like them to be.

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

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.

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

The best politics is no politics.

I'm not really getting too involved. My position is, Here's the record. I'm at your disposal.

I am not a rabid partisan.

… without animus or partiality.

When you are not a candidate you have greater credibility.

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

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

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

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

I serve a nation, not a party or a person. Nor to any branch of government.

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.