watchdogs

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Unions should not be lapdogs to a political party, they should be watchdogs for their members interests. Andy Stern

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries. Chuck Grassley

There is no conservative party left in Washington. Conservative thinkers and writers who were to be the watchdogs of orthodoxy have been as vigilant in policing party deviations from principle as was Cardinal Law in collaring the predator-priests of the Boston archdiocese. Pat Buchanan

I love the notion of there being a single group of Apollonian watchdogs down through the aeons, keeping the world safe from the malign (and far more fun-loving) forces of Dionysos. Elizabeth Hand

One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs. Dan Rather

And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know. Miloš Forman