Watchdogs Quotes & Sayings

You have a choice everyday ... You can choose every morning whether you will be depressed and miserable, or whether you will be happy. — Norman Vincent Peale

Ironically, even as Khomeini empowered some women, he also found ways of oppressing their entire gender. The regime replaced the shah's secular law with an Islamic law, which allowed men to marry up to four wives, to divorce them whenever the husbands wished, and to retain custody of children. The law put the value of a woman's life at half of that of a man's life, and the value of her testimony at half that of a man's testimony.
Thus women in Iran became watchdogs and scapegoats, both the foot soldiers of the new regime and its victims. Newly empowered, they were also newly oppressed. Theirs was a paradoxical plight - and at the time, no one could have foreseen how it would one day make women a force of enormous change in Iran. — Nazila Fathi

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

Having to act like an adult because I was directing a big movie but also feeling like a child because we had reindeer and big cameras and they had fake snow. I just wanted to go play in the snow. — Todd Strauss-Schulson

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

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

What sin has plagued me with this curse? — Michael Punke

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

I am for such a League [of Nations] provided we don't expect too much from it. . . . I am not willing to play the pan which even Aesop held up to derision when he wrote of how the wolves and the sheep agreed to disarm, and how the sheep as a guarantee of good faith sent away the watchdogs, and were then forthwith eaten by the wolves. — Theodore Roosevelt

You build something but you cant live in the house because you sit around guarding it. — Rodney Mullen

So how long do I have to pack? — Don Darkes

Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance. — Barack Obama

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

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

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

I don't mind sitting at home playing the guitar for a year as long as I'm making good films. — Tom Holland

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries. — Chuck Grassley

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

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

One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs. — Dan Rather

Journalists should be watchdogs, not lapdogs. — Newton Lee

We must protect each other against the attacks of those self-appointed watchdogs of patriotism now abroad in the land who irresponsibly pin red labels on anyone whom they wish to destroy ... [Academic professionals are the only person competant to differentiate between honest independents and the Communists.] This is our responsibility. It is not a pleasant task. But if it is left to outsiders, the distinction is not likely to be made and those independent critics of social institutions among us who are one of the glories of a true university could be silenced. — Joel Henry Hildebrand

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

Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our life. They should also govern it. WILHELM REICH — Wilhelm Reich

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

After three days without one, the desire to read a newspaper vanished. And really, one was happier without. — Josephine Tey

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

The genius of life is to take the spirit of childhood into old age. — Aldous Huxley

Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly. — Otto Rank

There's only so far you can go before you say enough is enough. — Jennifer Granholm

Unions should not be lapdogs to a political party, they should be watchdogs for their members' interests. — Andy Stern

Corporate America corrupted the watchdogs that were supposed to be guarding the public interest by feeding them under the table. — Arianna Huffington

I can't change where I come from or what I've been through, so why should I be ashamed of what makes me, me? — Angie Thomas

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