Holding Power to Account Quotes

I think the job of a good journalist, especially in Washington, is to create discomfort, and I think for a certain class of people, and for whom life is quite comfortable, I've created discomfort. So I take that as a badge of honor.

We speak truth to power, and we've never been fooled into believing Donald Trump 'can be a good president.'

The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the griefs and shames of others.

I don't really trust politicians, and our job is to call them out. It's old-school journalism.

Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that's working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

As a guerrilla journalist, I participate in the news by holding individuals who are in the news accountable through personal interactions. That involves confronting people in ambush interviews, secretly recording them, or engaging in a conversation with them when they are caught off guard.

It's our job as Liberal Democrats to be an effective opposition - and an increasingly tough one as well.

Most of us entered journalism and joined 'news organizations' because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

The duty of an Opposition is to oppose.

We "muckraked" not because we hated our world but because we loved it.