Lucien Conein Quotes

If you have empathy for both sides, then that's the same as having no empathy at all.

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

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

You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.

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

I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.

Because appearing to be fair is part of being fair, most mainstream news organizations discourage marching for causes, displaying political bumper stickers or giving cash to candidates.

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

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

I'm very partisan, but I'm also very fair.

I might like somebody, and have to go interview somebody that hates them, but I still have to be fair.

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

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

I take every possible side.

When something favors France, I say so. When it doesn't, I say so, too.

You can't play someone and judge them at the same time.

I'm always pretty fair-handed.

Professionally and personally, I try to be as agnostic as possible, try to see things as objectively as possible.

The promoter of an event can't take sides. He can't give better conditions to one fighter over the other. Everyone has to be treated with quality.

No praise, no blame. Just so.

Objectivity means trying to give all sides a hearing. It does not, in my view, mean treating all sides as equal.

You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

If you can't take both sides, it means you can only play yourself.

Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.