Quotes About Impartiality

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

It is—or seems to be—a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is only by way of joke, especially his misfortunes, if he have them. And it is also worth bearing in mind, that the joke is passed round pretty liberally & impartially, so that not very many are entitled to fancy that they in particular are getting the worst of it.

Putting pressure on grand juries to indict in my view is un-American. A grand jury should be allowed to be fair and impartial. They shouldn't have people yelling and screaming.

There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.

In contrast to what most prosecutors do, we try to treat all individuals with complete fairness. We do not go out and hold press conferences and the like.

In the end, I think everyone should be treated fairly.

The keystone to justice is the belief that the legal system treats all fairly.

Practicing in the trial work trenches of the law, I saw, too, that when we judges don our robes, it doesn't make us any smarter, but it does serve as a reminder of what's expected of us: Impartiality and independence, collegiality and courage.

It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.

In Malaysia, trials have always been fair.

We should try to create the society each of us would want if we didn't know in advance who we'd be.

Especially when you talk about the power of documentary filmmaking, you can't really have a slant; financially, you can't have a slant on the end goals.

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.

Mainstream America, in the long run, will always stand for highly qualified, impartial judges and for a fair process and for senators who do their jobs and vote - not who unfairly smear good men like Judge Alito.

I had a very strong background in journalism, so it's my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible.

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

I do not judge, I only chronicle.

Were I confirmed as a judge, I would decide cases according to the rule of law beginning to end.

You just want to be judged against everyone fairly.

I like for things to be judged fairly.

I'd work with anyone that the script requires me to. I'd never let my personal biases rule my judgement.

Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.

Good judges do not side with anyone. They rule impartially and blindly based upon the law.

I don't have any respect for judges who arrive at the result first, and then try to figure out some way they can bend the law to reach their particular predilections.