Watchdogs Quotes

#1. Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.

Barton Gellman

#2. In a free society, skeptics are the watchdogs against irrationalism - the consumer advocates of ideas. Debunking is not simply the divestment of bunk; its utility is in offering a better alternative, along with a lesson on how thinking goes wrong.

Michael Shermer

#3. And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know.

Milos Forman

#4. We've lost that very simple transaction that's so pure, where a reader can say, "I support what you're doing, here's my dollar. I know that you guys are gonna be watchdogs or keep the government accountable, so here's my 50-cent contribution each day." It's just so tidy, and I think so inspiring.

Dave Eggers

#5. For men born and educated like our citizens, the only way, in my opinion, of arriving at a right conclusion about the possession and use of women and children is to follow the path on which we originally started, when we said that the men were to be the guardians and watchdogs of the herd. True.

Plato

#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. Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

Chuck Grassley

#8. The history of government regulation of food safety is one of government watchdogs chasing the horse after it's out of the barn.

David Aaron Kessler

#9. One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.

Dan Rather

#10. The cynics were watchdogs terrifying malefactors. They tried to expose falseness and conceit. That's why their name is still spoken with a snarl.

Petr Skrabanek

#11. Unions should not be lapdogs to a political party, they should be watchdogs for their members' interests.

Andy Stern

#12. Although it has been a carefully guarded secret by the watchdogs of the mainstream media, eugenics programs were never discontinued worldwide, with involuntary sterilization programs continuing in many countries to this day.

Jim Keith

#13. The media is supposed to be custodians of the facts and watchdogs of government. They have, for the most part, neglected to be either of those things.

Janeane Garofalo

#14. Our politicians have sacrificed their principles on the altar of special interests; our corporate leaders have sacrificed their integrity on the altar of profits; and our media watchdogs have sacrificed the voice of dissent on the altar of audience competition.

Cornel West

#15. The unknown is uncontrolled; no strategies exist that will enclose the endless territory of the new. Only by trusting in yourself and in this world can you get past the watchdogs of your fears and out of the iron gates of the already-known.

Arthur J. Deikman

#16. And journalism itself has changed. News organizations and some journalists have transformed from their traditional role as watchdogs of power into institutions of power themselves with an ability, indeed, a susceptibility, to abuse that power.

Joan Konner

#17. Corporate America corrupted the watchdogs that were supposed to be guarding the public interest by feeding them under the table.

Arianna Huffington

#18. Journalists should be watchdogs, not lapdogs.

Newton Lee

#19. Nobody forced me to look any way. I just exaggerated what was already there.

Robin Zander

#20. As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.

Giacomo Casanova

#21. After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov. Ventura appointed me to the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

David Minge

#22. Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through murder.

Cassandra Clare

#23. The history of representations of Cleopatra provides one of the clearest instances of the conviction that whiteness is the pinnacle of human beauty. Cleopatra became a byword for feminine beauty in European culture, but in the process she had to be represented as white. As

Richard Dyer