Quotes About Scrutiny

The legislative branch writes laws, the head of the executive branch takes care that the laws are faithfully executed, at which point the judiciary is perpetually poised to scrutinize the content and application of the laws. Which makes the judiciary the epicenter of constitutional government.

He would have to ask questions constantly, take nothing for granted. There would be so many opportunities to miss the obvious, so many chances to misunderstand, so many ways of taking the wrong path.

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.

When you go to buy use your eyes, not your ears.

The defects of a preacher are soon spied.

I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opinion of a girl's sense of values or even of her chastity except by the looks of her conduct?

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

If you ever plan to run for office, if you're a teenager, remember everything you do, every tweet, every Facebook posting, every picture you put on Instagram will be there forever for journalists and politicians - for your competition to dig up.

I'm the kind of person that wants to analyze and I think having a background in, strangely enough, in like literature and languages, I'm always analyzing things.

If you get the you-are-a-genius label, it can limit you. Because I'm not so scrutinized, I have more freedom. And that let's me write what I want.

When Xi Jinping took command in 2012, some of us anticipated that he might turn foreign policy in a more conciliatory direction by centralizing the policy process and curbing the scrum of interest groups that had characterized Hu Jintao's oligarchy. Xi's personal authority was, and is, more than sufficient to restrain the various groups that had been promoting their own interests by overreaching under Hu's collective leadership.

I don't feel sorry for people in the public eye getting eyed by the public.

If Spain goes under, Italy will come under even more scrutiny.

Give me a few lines written by any man and I will find enough to get him hung" goes the saying attributed to Richelieu, Voltaire, Talleyrand (a vicious censor during the French revolution phase of terror), and a few others.

Give me a few lines written by any man and I will find enough to get him hung

which requires day-to-day monitoring.

These people are the ones to watch out for

In finance, for instance, people use flimsy theories to manage their risks and put wild ideas under "rational" scrutiny.

The all-seeing government can be very nearsighted when it comes to scrutinizing the actions of its own appendages.

Regression to the mean, the tendency for behavior to move toward "normal" or average, is a persistently powerful phenomenon in physics and sociology and investing.) Yes, several funds beat the market in any particular year and some in any decade, but scrutiny of the long-term records reveals that very few funds beat the market averages over the long haul—and nobody has yet figured out how to tell in advance which funds will do it. The

Skepticism is always a good first response.

Basically, as a leader, I try not to make any mistakes, because there's a lot of people watching even though you don't think so.

Some of the most impressive judicial nominees are grossly mistreated.

There will always be people who question your motives.