Jeff Van Drew Quotes

When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.

Facts are neither Republican nor Democrat.

I am not a rabid partisan.

I'm not a partisan.

In this day and age, much of journalism is about right or left, conservative or liberal, and 'The Observer' is just that: an observer. It is about truth.

I'm not a shill for the Democratic Party.

Conservatives need to go where the facts, not ideology, take them.

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

I've never been a fan of party politics.

Politics can cloud objectivity.

I have never been political in a partisan sense.

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice.

I am not a centrist.

If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.

I mean, look, we're living in a country where you can't have a non-denominational response. If you're slightly critical of either party, all of the partisans jump on you like you're a lunatic.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

I'm not really a Democrat or a Republican, but I don't like rhetoric.

My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.

Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.