Quotes About Independence

I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.

The Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci used to say that for her, an interview was like a war. I get the sense that we've forgotten that here in the United States. You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.

To some extent, being an entrepreneur is a lonely journey.

I was introduced to the church through my parents but I had to struggle and find it on my own. In the end I learned much of my faith and found much of my strength through watching my father's and mother's journeys.

That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.

I don't judge myself by what someone says.

You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

The thing is, if you're in this world, you have to do things for yourself, not for others, because everyone will judge you for anything.

One cannot tell the High Court what to adjudicate. They must judge, and then the legislature must act accordingly.

It's not for other people to judge me.

I don't care how people judge me.

You don't have to be scared of what other people are thinking. You don't need to feel judged by other people.

We have our own agency; we should be judged by our own work.

I have never judged myself by how anyone else has played.

You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.

Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.

Independent judges have always frustrated governments that don't see why unelected arbiters of the law should stand in their way.

I have learned as I've grown up that it's too easy to worry that others are looking at you, or judging you, but most of the time they are just getting on with their own lives.

I like to wear whatever I like. I don't care about others' judgment or if it's right or wrong.

I will be my own kind of senator using my own best judgment and my own experience.

I follow my own mind and judgment.

It is true that there have been excesses of judicial activism.

Independence of Judiciary means independence from Executive and Legislature, but not independence from accountability.

A president shouldn't tell the judiciary what to do.