Alan Lewis Quotes

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

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.

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

Finally, a good prosecutor knows that her job is to enforce the law without fear or favor. Likewise, a Supreme Court Justice must interpret the laws without fear or favor.

In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.

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

I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.

If I'm lucky enough to be involved in the Academy Awards in the future, I'll just let people make up their decision without being involved in any politics. Because it shouldn't involve that.

I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.

The best moderators are the moderators who are essentially invisible. A moderator who is there to be seen and heard and to be talked about either, 'oh, God, what a great question,' or, 'oh, God, what a lousy question,' that to me is a failed moderator.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

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.

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.

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

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.

Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.

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.

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.

Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

I am not a rabid partisan.

I do not intend to prejudge the past.

… without animus or partiality.

If you would be a good judge, hear what every one says.