Quotes About Oversight

Go for a business that any idiot can run – because sooner or later any idiot probably is going to be running it.

The funny thing was that that this meant the whole company had been running without mutexes for a couple weeks, and nobody noticed.

if you're smart enough to do the job, you're too smart to trust with the controls.

There is a difference between failure caused by ignorance and failure caused by negligence.

Visit USA.gov and you'll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services replete with overlapping responsibilities, ancient priorities, and divided accountability.

Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.

You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought of. Even thought of! The idea, that here's this vital energy, and that element doesn't even know it exists!

Whistleblowers play a vital role in ensuring that the federal government is accountable to the people it serves.

On the board of a financial institution, especially one that took TARP money, it has changed radically because the regulators have been vocal about what they want boards to do and how involved they want boards to be in the management of a company.

The problem is that the American public is suspicious of executive power shrouded in secrecy. In the absence of an official picture of what our government is doing, and by what authority, many in the public fill the void by envisioning the worst.

I voted against H.R. 4293, the Stress Test Improvement Act of 2017, which would modify the regulatory oversight of certain financial institutions in a way that is likely to expose our economy to greater risk.

It should be mandatory that any tax breaks go through appropriate committees and be voted on separately by both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

We forget that the main constitutional responsibility of the MLAs and MPs that we vote for is law making, and oversight of the executive to implement those laws. During my husband's 2014 election campaign, I did not hear a single voter mention this aspect of the legislator's role.

Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.

We were sent here to hold government accountable.

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.

I'm not a babysitter.

We are absolutely going to make sure Paul Ryan is being held accountable to the people.

We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing.

The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on.

Anybody can miss a penalty.

People don't do what you expect but what you inspect.

I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.

The office has oversight of people who do analysis and oversight of people who do operations, but it is not charged with doing either. That is an important point to make. Those functions are performed by the CIA, DIA and other agencies.