Un Watchdog Quotes

#1. While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers.

David Talbot

#2. Tasmania needs a watchdog, not a lap dog.

Lara Giddings

#3. The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for "peace through strength" has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog.

Christopher Hitchens

#4. After all, Americans can be terrifying.

Connie Willis

#5. Our conventional response to all media, namely that it is how they are used that counts, is the numb stance of the technological idiot," he wrote. The content of the medium is just "the juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind." P 4

Nicholas Carr

#6. You must excuse my gruff conduct," the watchdog said, after they'd been driving for some time, "but you see it's traditional for watchdogs to be ferocious.

Norton Juster

#7. There is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.

Bill Moyers

#8. You can't tell the audience - well, you can, but I don't like to tell the audience - that anything they're watching doesn't matter.

Dan Harmon

#9. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

Edward Gibbon

#10. You want me to paint you?' Genna spoke up raising an eyebrow of displeasure.
'All of me.' James bowed his head to Genevieve and whispered the words slowly.

Tan Redding

#11. To love someone is to acknowledge the goodness of who they are. Through loving a person we awaken their awareness of their own innate goodness. It is as though they cannot know how worthy they are until they look into the mirror of our love and see themselves.

John Gray

#12. I remember Detroit feeling really unsafe, feeling scared a lot. Our house was broken into, our car was stolen, we had to get a watchdog, we would get beat up in the street, I had my bike stolen. There was just a lot of real anarchy on the streets and sidewalks.

Sufjan Stevens

#13. If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.

Stanley Kubrick

#14. My dog is half pit-bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip!

Craig Shoemaker

#15. Matthias knew if he started trailing after Nina on missions like some kind of watchdog, she'd put her hands on those glorious hips and demonstrate her knowledge of profanity in several different languages.

Leigh Bardugo

#16. Concerning politics: "The American media is like a watchdog who has developed an affection for the burglar."

Ron Dart

#17. Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog function at the local level to ensure safeguards against abuse, chicanery, and outright dishonesty.

Eric Alterman

#18. I'll always understand the Schadenfreude aspect to short-selling. I get that no one will always like it. I'm also convinced to the deepest part of my bones that short-selling plays the role of real-time financial watchdog. It's one of the few checks and balances in the market.

James Chanos

#19. If everyone has to be a watchdog in order to make government work, then the foxes will also volunteer to serve.

William Greider

#20. When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

Honore De Balzac

#21. We are in a situation with the huge stimulus package that's going to be spent all across this nation and a big financial crisis and banking crisis. And what we need is good, trained journalists who can play the role of watchdog.

Walter Isaacson

#22. I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. They serve as a very useful check, sort of a watchdog over the actions of the government, and I respect that.

Alberto Gonzales

#23. Her hopeless love swelled up inside her, crying for an outlet, and all she could do was hold it silently in her heart.

Lyn Ducoty

#24. I used comedy as a way to combat my dyslexia. I was barely getting by scholastically, so I used a lot of humor.

Joel McHale

#25. My father had gifted us both with a package of suspicion that sat like a teeth-baring watchdog in our minds.

Tarryn Fisher

#26. Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian Businessman.

H.L. Mencken

#27. Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.

Thomas Frank

#28. You know what my boss says? He says that skepticism is a good watchdog if you know when to take the leash off.

Rex Stout

#29. The press is a watchdog. Not an attack dog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can't be right all the time. He doesn't bark only when he sees or smells something that's dangerous. A good watchdog barks at things that are suspicious.

Dan Rather

#30. And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?

Epictetus

#31. The Samurai always has to rise and move on, because new challenges will come.

Lyoto Machida

#32. That's the thing about true love. It can rise from the ashes because at its source, it's indestructible. Layers can be stripped away and lost, but if you're lucky enough to find them again and put them back together, the end result is stronger than ever.

Penelope Ward