Quotes About Muckrakers

#1. I think that some of the greatest muckrakers and some of the greatest investigative journalists of all time had strong feelings about civil rights. There is a role for the journalist-advocate. And as long as you play your cards on the table, I think that's a role that we should allow.

Pete Earley

#2. The "evils of faction" theme recurs throughout our history, from the writings of the "muckrakers" at the turn of the twentieth century to the Democratic presidential primary campaigns of 2008 with talk of Halliburton's contracts in Iraq and the shady practices of sub-prime mortgage lenders.

Edward S. Greenberg

#3. If you combine your thoughts with the thoughts of others, you will come up with thoughts you've never had!

John C. Maxwell

#4. True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does.

Hugh Nibley

#5. I was born with the biggest middle finger on Earth.

Eminem

#6. Be the change you're trying to create

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. I've always looked at the world as a place where people have done evil things. There are people in the world, for instance, that would describe Americans as evil.

Peter Sarsgaard

#8. There was something comforting about having a vast hydrogen furnace burning millions of tons of material a second at the centre of a solar system. It was cheery.

Iain M. Banks

#9. On a given day, you can have market fluctuations where prices fluctuate far more than the underlying economic value of the unit.

N. Murray Edwards

#10. Sometimes awful things have their own beauty.

Christopher Isherwood