Freya Stark Quotes

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

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

Politics or ideology must not get in the way of sound planning..

Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.

I am not a rabid partisan.

Politics can cloud objectivity.

I'm not a partisan.

I think I've earned a reputation of being fair and that I'll hear all sides from the entire political spectrum.

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

I'll leave it to others to try to determine whether or not that was unfair or not. I'm not the nominee.

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.

If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will maybe be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.

It helps to have “has beens” on commissions because they have no political ax to grind.

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

We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.

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

I am not as partisan as people think I am.

The Supreme Court must never be viewed as a partisan institution.

Though I am probably guilty of indulging in excessive tribalism myself at times, I try to put partisanship to one side where appropriate.

You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.

I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.

Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.

You’re not exempt from math if you’re a Republican, and you’re not exempt from math if you’re a Democrat. You’re not exempt from math if you’re a liberal, and you’re not exempt from math if you’re a conservative. You still have to do math.

To be nonpartisan doesn't mean we're nonpolitical.

Centrism is bogus.