Quotes About Oversight

Oversight versus Insight: Most of us want to oversee the situation without insight of the situation. Knowledge is King.

If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

Freedom exists only where people take care of the government.

I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.

Intelligence collection has been given an additional bureaucracy to correct the problems created by too much bureaucracy in intelligence collection.

It's awful. Why did nobody see it coming?

The Avengers have the same unfortunate tendency as ordinary law enforcement. Once we have a perpetrator to hang the crime on, we look no further.

Enforcement isn't about big government or small government. It's about whether government works and who it works for.

Someone had blundered.

unspecified exhortation, when translated into practice, is always liable to a certain amount of executive misdirection

People resisted having weapons on airplanes, but I oversaw the federal air marshals. It's a deterrent. No one sees that weapon, but they are protected on that airplane, and it's a huge positive impact on safety.

In Britain, a 'block list' of harmful Web sites, used by all the major Internet Service Providers, is maintained by a private foundation with little transparency and no judicial or government oversight of the list.

Government has to be cut back like asparagus... every day... or it gets away and goes to seed. Ours did. When there's too much of it, the flower becomes a weed.

Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.

Imagine if these computer geeks who are running baseball now were allowed to run a war? They'd be telling our soldiers: 'That's enough. You've fired too many bullets from your rifle this week!'

It seems to me that before we give federal funds to police departments, we ought to mandate that they have body cams.

We need to police ourselves in the media.

It's expensive to police the world.

We need to take responsibility for all digital-related policies in one agency.

The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.