Quotes About Scrutiny

They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.

The way police do what they do is under the microscope. You've got people on the one side saying, 'We need to be holding our police accountable.' And you've got a lot of people who support the police saying they're being 'unfairly vilified.'

I myself have been scrutinized by militarized police, but I know officers who actually handle themselves in a certain way that makes me feel safe.

People around the world are asking their political leaders legitimate questions about their tax arrangements. And yet, in the case of David Cameron, it is his failure to provide complete answers that has aroused the desire for further scrutiny.

As a politician, I should expect sharp challenge from those who disagree with my decisions.

I don't think I look like the pope's favorite Catholic - at least not under close scrutiny.

Well, I've been a legislator, and I'm the governor now. When you get in these positions, you've got to be held to a pretty high standard.

One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.

Who knows controversies better than me? The controversies always chase people who are active and decision makers.

I just want people to question everything. Question what your congressman is doing, your city council. Question what really happened during the Civil War. What happened during 9/11.

A just and a brave man acts fearlessly and with explicitness; he does not shun, but court, the scrutiny of mankind; he lives in the face of day, and the whole world confesses the clearness of his spirit and the rectitude of his conduct.

I've always been a really hard critic of everything I do.

I'm more critical of the films I make than anyone else.

If you're a QB in the NFL, you'll be subjected to criticism.

Some will criticize me no matter what I do.

I get criticized for anything I do.

Whenever you do anything public, you open yourself up to be criticized.

I just think that playing in a championship game and playing in every game in March Madness, that's just more time for critics to watch you and more time for them to nitpick at what you don't do well or what they feel you don't do well.

A goalkeeper's mistakes are always crucial ones - or get talked about a lot.

It is normal to be under pressure in England and Italy when you arrive in the last two months of the season. Every manager is talked about, and their squad is examined.

I haven't talked to the press much. That's why I've gotten kind of a bad reputation. They look at me and think I don't give a damn. But I'm not comfortable with the attention.

Being in a fishbowl, everybody looking at every move you make, talking about everything you do - it's just a hard life to live.

When you're the older guy, everybody talks about you. When you win, everybody talks about you. When you lose, everybody talks about you.

Philosophy ought to imitate the successful sciences in its methods, so far as to proceed only from tangible premises which can be subjected to careful scrutiny, and to trust rather to the multitude and variety of its arguments than to the conclusiveness to any one. Its reasoning should not form a chain which is no stronger than its weakest link, but a cable whose fibres may be ever so slender, provided they are sufficiently numerous and intimately connected. (Peirce 1992, p. 29)