Watchdog Quotes

A journalist is the lookout on the bridge of the ship of state. He notes the passing sail, the little things of interest that dot the horizon in fine weather. He reports the drifting castaway whom the ship can save. He peers through fog and storm to give warning of dangers ahead. He is not thinking of his wages or of the profits of his owners. He is there to watch over the safety and the welfare of the people who trust him.

The media helps keep government honest.

Thank God we have a press that tells us what you guys are doing.

But who guards the guardians?

The press deserved the attacks and criticisms of Will Irwin (1910) and Upton Sinclair (1920) and the muckrakers who followed, and it needs today the watchdog and gadfly activities of the new critical weeklies, but all in all it is now a better medium of mass information.... The 1972 Watergate disclosures, it is true, were made by only a score of the members of the mass media, but I remember Teapot Dome when only one of our 1,750 dailies (the Albuquerque Morning Journal) dared to tell the truth about White House corruption. We have come a long way since.

I am not asking for 60 months to sit and enjoy power, but to be the Chowkidaar of the country.

I have a second dog, too, mainly for security.

While nobody likes a watchdog, and for that reason many investigating committees are unpopular, I thank God for men who, in the face of public denouncement and ridicule go loyally on in their work of exposing the pinks, the lavenders and the reds who have sought refuge beneath the wings of the American eagle …

Tasmania needs a watchdog, not a lap dog.

Accusations fit on Greenwald really sounds like he's against all surveillance unless you can find a guy with the Al Qaeda card, wearing an Al Qaeda baseball cap, an Al Qaeda uniform.

Who will observe the observers?

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

I know some people would be like, 'Why are you responding to these racists on Twitter?' Sometimes it's for the purpose of letting them know they're being watched and that they're going to have to answer for their words.

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

The Department of Insurance should be a state watchdog for the people, not a lap dog.

Go to the Sydney Institute Media Watch Dog website to marvel at his [Gerard Henderson's] work.

Over the years, Judicial Watch has called out many White House conflicts of interest.

I know the activists I deal with, we sort of try and check each other to make sure that we haven't gone native, that you come to Washington thinking it's a cesspool, you don't want to end up thinking it's really a hot tub and getting used to it. So that's something one has to keep an eye on all the time.

Israel is the American watchdog in the Middle East, and that's why the Palestinians remain victims of one of the longest military occupations.

It is the great inspector, with a myriad eyes, who never sleeps, and whose daily reports are submitted, not to a functionary or department, but to the whole people.

My role is that of the watchdog.

With the 'Watchdog Army' we're putting viewers at the heart of the programme.

...there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.