Quotes About Oversight

It won't be easy, given that some courts have ruled that even sleeping through your client's trial is not enough to qualify.

6 The first job God gave humans was to manage and take

See here, son, if a deputy sheriff beats a prisoner to death, it's sweepstakes odds that the county commissioners didn't order it, didn't know it, and wouldn't have permitted it had they known. At worst they shut their eyes to it—afterwards—rather than upset their own applecarts. But assassination has never been an accepted policy in this country.

not one of those people said: "Please pass this so that I won't be able to do something I know I should stop." Nyet, tovarishchee, was always something they hated to see neighbors doing. Stop them "for their own good"—not because speaker claimed to be harmed by it.

Ollie do any of his own work?" "Mostly he runs things.

Rather, when famine, plague or war break out of our control, we feel that somebody must have screwed up, we set up a commission of inquiry, and promise ourselves that next time we'll do better.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

Leadership is stewardship, it's temporary and you're accountable!

You can't defer if you're the person who's in the leadership position.

Each of us was created to rule, govern, control, master, manage, and lead our environments. You are in essence a leader, no matter who you are.

Learning is the art of ignoring.

He who knows how to teach a child is not competent for the oversight of a child's education unless he also knows how to train a child.

Fed role - legal system, currency & defense, within its means.

There is no farm-state equivalent for intelligence, no geographic center of industry or interests that encourages legislators to focus on intelligence oversight to win voter support. As Michael Hayden told me, "No member ever gets a bridge built or a road paved by serving on the intelligence committee. It's an act of patriotism.

From 1976 to 2005, Senate rules limited service on the intelligence committee to just eight years.116 House rules still impose term limits for the intelligence committee117 but almost no other committees.118 The result: Just when legislators become experts, they are forced to stop overseeing the Intelligence Community.

He'd forgotten how big the place was, and he was so busy looking around, he misjudged the placement of the doorframe and hit himself painfully as he walked through.

A key ambiguity about large defence contractors: they are pillars of the free market economy whose shareholders are supposed to provide oversight, while receiving extensive state support which insulates them from market vagaries and meaningful oversight.

At around 50 employees, you get to the point where you can't see what's going on all the time. So you start to have weekly check-ins, and you have days that go by without knowing exactly what's going on.

There is certainly a role for regulation, but regulation should always take into account the impact that it has on markets, a balance that must be constantly weighed.

My fundamental concern about the role of faith groups in providing social provision is democratic: how do we hold them to account? To whom are they responsible? How do we, the public, the recipients of welfare, punish them if they make mistakes or become corrupt?

As well-intentioned as it might be, the Ali Act suffers from glaring flaws.

With great powers come great responsibilities; with plenary powers come plenary responsibilities.