Christiane Amanpour Quotes

Objective is the wrong word. Rather, it's fairness. Objectivity is a false God. Instead we should strive for fairness and transparency.

I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

It sounds funny, but I always try to keep an open mind about what I'm writing about. Sometimes I squeak my opinions in there, but generally I don't. I try to be objective about things that I'm writing about.

I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.

I’ve never found the truth to be fair and balanced.

No one is a good judge in his own cause.

The complete truth is not the prerogative of the human judge.

Objectivity in the end is an unattainable ideal.

There is no human objectivity.

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.

I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.

I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.

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.

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

I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.

I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.

The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should realize this.

A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of course. The framing of an image, by its very composition, represents a choice. The photographer chooses what to show and what to exclude.