Quotes About Oversight

There is an intentional disregard for human health and safety in many government agencies that are tasked with protecting it.

The history of government regulation of food safety is one of government watchdogs chasing the horse after it's out of the barn.

If someone says they shouldn't have to follow regulations because they're making food in their home, I'd say, 'Why is your home so safe that it doesn't need that level of oversight and control?'

I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Dr Adams was following my orders if you want to blame someone blame me -casiusoh i do, I'm just so pissed i had extra left over - Jace

There can be no stewardship without stewards.

You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guys' O. It makes your X's and O's pretty good.

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

We're not very good when we're spending other people's money.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

the men placed willow wands every 50 feet or so to mark their route—as I did in 1992, but as no one bothered to in 1986 or 2008, an oversight that contributed to both tragedies.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

What, it may be asked, is the true spirit of the institution itself? Is it not designed as a method of national inquest into the conduct of public men? If this be the design of it, who can so properly be the inquisitors for the nation as the representatives of the nation themselves?

As I see it, only God can be all-powerful without danger, because his wisdom and justice are always equal to his power. Thus there is no authority on earth so inherently worthy of respect, or invested with a right so sacred, that I would want to let it act without oversight or rule without impediment (p. 290).

Everywhere you look in Washington, you can find examples of financial mismanagement.

Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long.

Washington told Wall Street, 'We're going to let y'all regulate yourselves.' The Republicans were in charge. They never said a word.

There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.

We've got to look at waste, fraud, and abuse across the board.

Serving on the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight allows me to play a role making government more accountable by investigating waste, mismanagement, and improprieties.

The biggest problem with the deficit is programs that are unconstitutional and wasteful.

What I don't want to become numb to is wasting those taxpayer dollars.

You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision.