General Quote by Heather Brooke Download Open image “It is scrutiny by the general public that keeps the powerful honest.” — Heather Brooke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare General General public Honest Keeps Powerful Public Scrutiny Truth
We are a nation founded on distrust of government power, and questioning that power is essential to promoting transparency and accountability. — Asha Rangappa Copy Share Image
Thoughtful criticism and close scrutiny of all government officials by the press and the public are an important part of our democratic society. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
For some reason, there are political forces that somehow feel threatened by honest inquiry. How can you be threatened by wanting to know the… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
It's so important to the public to get an honest press. The press - the public doesn't believe you people anymore. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
As candidates and elected officials, we have an obligation to be honest. — Cary Kennedy Copy Share Image
It's a little bit hard to have personal things subject to public scrutiny, and it's a pressure that other people aren't under, but then… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
A press that has validity is a press that has authority. And as soon as there's any authority to what the press says, you… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Newspapers are not free and they never have been. They can appear to be so, but someone, somewhere is covering the costs whether that… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
In Britain, it's bred into you, the idea that you can't really change anything, so why bother. When I went to school in America,… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
There's a temptation not to vote at all as a protest, but it's definitely not a protest. In fact, all it does is keep… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
There are corporate private investigators, companies doing very forensic background checks on people. They buy data, they get their own data... They don't want… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future. — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
If you don't think there is any value in the work I, or any other serious journalists do, then don't spend your money on… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
I trained as a journalist in America where paying sources is frowned upon. Now I work in the U.K. where there is a more… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
Democracy isn't just for people in the Middle East, but Britons, too. — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
In whose interest is it to hype up the collapse of the Internet from a DDoS attack? Why, the people who provide cyber security… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties. — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
The movement towards radical transparency and accountability has been gaining steam for several decades. — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Disability, in general, hasn't been included in the conversation about inclusivity. — Jason Winston George Copy Share Image
I've never had a couch that needed to be cleaned or learned how to couch-clean in general. That feels too grown-up. — Kate McKinnon Copy Share Image
People bring up tweets that I don't even remember, and my general response is, 'I don't know if I said it. I probably said… — Mike Cernovich Copy Share Image
On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
When I was at school you got an overall general education on many things, even just basic facts. — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no special identity;… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of guy who comes home and checks scores for everything. I'm a sports fan in general, so I pretty much keep… — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
Mentors don't have to be the Daymond Johns or the Mark Cubans. A person running a successful bodega or a tax firm in your… — Daymond John Copy Share Image
Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
