Quotes About Oversight

The founding leaders of our country believed in a three-part sharing of governmental power, with each branch jealously watching the actions of the other two.

In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.

People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then?

I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.

Like most Americans of my age, I was very impressed by the dynamic capacities of the law, demonstrated by the Civil Rights Movement and then Watergate, animated by Sam Ervin's mantra that no person is above the law.

When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something.

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.

We cannot expect to keep our nation's secrets secure - or provide meaningful oversight for our intelligence agencies - if proper classification of our country's secrets is as likely as a coin flip.

As both a career intelligence officer and as an American citizen, I am a strong believer in the importance of oversight. Simply put, experience has taught us that CIA cannot be effective without the people's trust, and we cannot hope to earn that trust without the accountability that comes with Congressional oversight.

It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.

We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.

Agencies must know who they are accountable to. If the agencies know who they are accountable to but we cannot say who they are accountable to, then really it is a very sad situation that is bound to be misused. It is bound to affect human rights.

If we cannot share aspects of our secret work with the public, we should do so with their elected representatives. For CIA oversight is a vital link to the open society we defend. It's a defining feature of the U.S. intelligence community and one of the many things that distinguishes us from the hostile services we face in the field.

If I could police every other social platform in the world, I would.

With great power comes great responsibility. These are platforms with hundreds of millions of people.

Government shouldn't constantly be in our pocket.

The Bank had never used the word 'corruption' at all until I got there, and the reason for that was, as the general counsel pointed out to me, that quite a number of our shareholders represented were not immune from corruption in their governments.

I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.

Coaching was something I've never had much interest in. I've always been a big-picture guy, like a manager has to be.

The franking commission is not there to fact-check.

There needs to be a college football commissioner.

We can't let government make long-term commitments that it may not be able to keep.

We had something in the United States called, which is called CFIUS, which is the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. My husband used to be one of the lawyers on that committee.

It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.