Quotes About Scrutiny

Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.

Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

All error dreads the light of the word, and fears more to be examined by that, than a thief does to be tried before a strict judge.

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should be not only tolerated, but encouraged.

Do something untoward and there is a good chance that it might be observed, recorded and, given time, judged.

If you love your government, you are not paying attention.

When will rappers & skanks realize God's not the only one who gets to judge them on their actions? We do too. It's called CONSEQUENCES.

When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not to protect the country from enemies.

There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.

They say it's the responsibility of the media to look at government - especially the President - with a microscope. I don't argue with that, but when they use a proctoscope, it's going too far.

The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law.

We look harder for flaws in a study when we don't agree with its conclusions.

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

When and if I wish to yield my privacy to the scrutiny of others, you will be the first to be invited to the exhibition.

do you have any idea how uncomfortable it is to have the whole damned EPA up your ass? Because that's what I have right now, and according to my wife, I've never had much ass, so it's getting crowded down there and I'm more than a little uncomfortable. You

Judges live with shadows behind them.

After briefly acknowledging the tragedy of his predecessor's passing, he called for an increase in the size of the Navy, avoidance of public debt during peacetime, stabilization of the currency, and greater scrutiny over abuse of public offices.

could have cried aloud in exultation when my scrutiny disclosed the almost invisible incrustation of particles of carbonized electrons which are thrown off by these Martian torches. It

The historian, like any other scientist, is an animal who incessantly asks the question: Why?