Watchdog Government Quotes & Sayings

My greatest solace is my study. If I am deprived of my study, I can become lost, unhappy and unhinged. — Karen Armstrong

Thank you, Teobaldo. You are my greatest friend. This has been the key to everything. — Robin Sloan

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

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Oh my God. I love rich people. And royalty are the best because they're rich people who can't be fires. — Paul Rudnick

In between saying something and achieving it, there is some pothole to fill; that's "doing it". Goals are pursued with the word "GO" and visions with the word "VENTURE". You can't be living always in the promise of the cloud; it must rain now! — Israelmore Ayivor

U.S. failures when it comes to the Gulf of Guinea are many: a failure to address the longstanding concerns of a government watchdog agency, a failure to effectively combat piracy despite an outlay of tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, and a failure to confront corrupt African leaders who enable piracy in the first place. — Nick Turse

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

Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open? — Agatha Christie