Quotes About Oversight

Taxpayers should be able to see where their money is being spent and what impact it is having.

Direction and all is not my cup of tea. It's not an easy job.

Leadership must entail trusteeship. Leaders are stewards of the unwritten rules we once took for granted, that constituted the common good.

Providing too much detail can be an invitation for micro-management.

It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.

government to act responsibly, serving only to provide a "seal of authenticity" certifying, for example, that a particular yellow disc contains an ounce of gold.

Last year, one of our divisions had to return over a billion dollars because they could not find anyone who qualified for it.

It is simple. That is why the idea is missed.

So where does the human error come in? Well, sometimes I buy a stamp and mount it in my album without troubling to log it in my catalog. And later I find it offered on somebody else's list, and see that it's one I don't have, and buy it again. And then when I go to mount the new copy in my album, there's one already there.

When they explore opportunity cost of black blood I hear ancient corridors survived on the neck of ancient souls Satellite empires, the oversight dark forces

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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who watches the watchmen?

Who watches the watchmen?

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, and politicians. All three need supervision.

The prince who would know all, must ignore much.

But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.

We now have so many regulations that everyone is guilty of some violation.

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.

You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal - no one will see it. But when a button is missing - everyone sees that.

But today's gap represents a failure of planning sometime in the past.

When you try to exercise authority within a department that is outside your core competencies, you will hinder everything and everyone under your watch. If you fail to distinguish between authority and competence, you will exert your influence in ways that damage projects and people. To put it bluntly, there are things you are responsible for that you should keep your nose out of.

I think whenever something is - whenever there's something that affects the public good, then there does need to be some form of public oversight.

It's difficult wherever I go. They don't build anything for big people. They have everything for blind people, for cripple people, for some other people, but not for big people.