Quotes About Oversight

Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni warmed to the theme. "And you could have yet another list," he said. "Things that other people should do, but don't seem to be doing." Mma Ramotswe thought for a while. "That could be a very long list," she said. "There are many people who do not do what they should be doing.

Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

Many SWAT teams are essentially accountable to no one. These independent SWAT groups claim that although they are funded by the taxpayers, they have incorporated and therefore, as private corporations, they are exempt from opening their records to the public.

I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.

Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break

I have had the privilege of serving as city comptroller, and I lead 750 professionals in the office, have appointed eight deputy comptrollers... no one has criticized my management of these 750 professionals.

The professionals at the State Board of Elections must assume control of the county board of elections operations in Bladen County, which has shown itself incapable of managing fair elections.

I think cameras should be in the courtroom, but they need to be managed properly. You need a judge to hold the line.

In the Justice Department, responsibility for overseeing and directing investigations is lodged in the department's prosecutors.

The work of the CSSF and Prosperity Fund is guided by the National Security Council. As chair of the National Security Council Sub-Committee that oversees both funds, I am working to ensure that they are accountable and measurable against their intended objectives.

Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?

The government has a key role in regulating and making sure there's an even playing field and protecting consumers. No question about it.

Always protecting the players is not good.

Frankly, I do like the idea that we centralize consumer protection for financial products into one agency.

We need to close the loopholes that allowed large corporations to abuse the Paycheck Protection Program.

I think there is a lot of fat in the government.

The federal government is way larger than it should be.

You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.

Cruise director is - I always laugh and say, 'He's the ship's liver,' because almost everything you can think of filters through you at some point.

Too few people in my old field of financial services were ever brought to book for their part in the 2008 crash.

Design-wise, I look at everything. If I don't personally design it, I'll review it. I'm kind of creative director of the firm.

Under the Trump administration, the traditional structure of White House oversight of American offensive and defensive cyberactivities is being dismantled.

I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom.

We measure everything - why not governance?