Unbiased Representation Quotes

Exactitude is not truth.

'Zakhm' has no political agenda. But, it certainly says things as they are.

Public officials, including state legislators, have a duty to act impartially.

Your real progressives are never fair: they are never sufficiently neutral.

With so many serious issues and responsibilities before the United States Senate, I think New York needs an independent senator who thinks for herself, not someone who just rubberstamps the Obama agenda or checks with Chuck Schumer and says, 'Me too.'

Both the Democratic and Republican parties are bought and paid for by corporate America and cater to the needs of the highest bidder as opposed to the people they claim to represent. I cannot be bought.

If elected, I would not be the mere president of a party - I would endeavor to act independent of party domination and should feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.

Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.

I am an actor who doesn't believe in carrying an 'image' in the industry. I don't want to get trapped in an image.

What we want, above all things on earth in our public men, is independence. It is one great defect in the character of the public men of America that there is that real want of independence; and, in this respect, a most marked contrast exists between public men in this country and in Great Britain.

I came from the school of cinema verite documentaries, which was: Do not manipulate reality as it was happening but create a narrative in the editing room.

We have a strong tradition in our country of senior leaders being apolitical, nonpartisan.

I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.

I will continue to work for people, but not from any political party. What I can do do as a Rajya Sabha member, I can do without being a member too, perhaps even more efficiently.

I will always demand the right for theatre to talk about anything and anyone. Without exception. None.

If literary terms were about artistic merit and not the rules of convenience, about achievement and not safety, the term 'realism' would be an honorary one, conferred only on work that actually builds unsentimental reality on the page, that matches the complexity of life with an equally rich arrangement in language.

I would rather be an independent senator, governed by my own views, going for the good of the country, uncontrolled by any thing which mortal man can bring to bear upon me, than to be president of the United States, put there as presidents of the United States have been for many years past.

The prime minister does not represent a particular political party; he is a representative of the whole country.

If we're not careful, to be in public life, you're going to have to be the product of a virgin birth.

'Transparent' was huge for me when I first saw it. I felt that, from an authorial point of view, no one was trying to sell characters to us, you know? It's the idea of not having to adore these characters and want to cuddle them; you just have to be into them and their psychology and be compelled by them.

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.

If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.

I don't do 'political correctness,' whatever that means. I write the stories I want to write, featuring the characters I want to feature. I don't touch demographic bases to appease this group or that. I write what I want. Full stop.

Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that's a betrayal of the relationship between author and reader.

I hate the idea that I have to represent any particular section of society; I just write good telly, that's all.