Quotes About Oversight

We can walk and chew gum at the same time. Yes, the American people want us to legislate, they want us to insist on furthering their set of values, but they also want us to resist and exercise our oversight powers.

Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.

We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.

Presidents and cabinet officials could send a strong message of accountability if they held senior appointees responsible for their performance.

They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.

With big data comes big responsibilities.

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

As a director and captain of the ship, there are many things that demand your attention - crew members, locations, budget etc.

We need to stop sending federal military equipment to local police departments.

Despite its heightened duty, at times the SEC has been inattentive to economic analysis.

Limiting the destructive risk-taking by large financial firms and banks which are 'too big to fail' is needed.

My most important task must be an attempt to bring the monster under democratic direction and control.

It's time to roll back superfluous governmental regulations and limit government to its sole task: safeguarding the rights of its citizens.

We demand Congress access and publicly release Donald Trump's tax returns!

Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.

I have every right to know how my taxes are spent, how every single penny of it is spent. I have the right to know that.

Where the federal government and the taxpayer has had funds misused, we need to use the full extent of the law to get those funds back for the taxpayer.

Congress can protect small businesses by providing effective oversight over SBA policies and make sure they take into account the needs of small businesses while also protecting taxpayer dollars. Congress also needs to make sure that new banking regulations do not make it more costly for community banks to lend to small businesses.

Congress has the constitutional authority to investigate the other agencies of government. We are the watchdogs of the taxpayer's money, and we have the right to know how that money is being spent and to conduct oversight over the government.

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

The taxpayers deserve accountability.

Congress has a responsibility to review research paid for by hard-working American taxpayers.

The Department of Education's refusal to oversee and hold for-profit schools accountable is a government-made disaster, and American students and taxpayers should not have to pay for it.

I'm gonna watch the taxpayers' money like I was elected to do.