Quotes About Oversight

I say, that Power must never be trusted without a check.

How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth chose in several strategic instances to look the other way.

Uncannily accurate intuition, coupled with a tendency to overlook the obvious and ignore major data.

Nassim Taleb asked why, after a driver crashes his school bus, killing and injuring his passengers, he should be put in charge of another bus and asked to set up new safety rules.

If President Nixon's secretary, Rosemary Woods, had been Moses' secretary, there would only be eight commandments.

The president's powers are always open to being questioned by the co-equal branches of government.

We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law enforcement more power to do this. But that now begs the question, did we move to fast? Did we give too much power away? I don't have the answer.

What I want veterans to know is that VA is here to care for them. VA is a good system - health care wise, safety wise - highly comparable to any other system out there. Our oversight reviews tell us that. I'm very comfortable in the quality of our system.

Congress has a constitutional right to help decide and limit how the country uses its military power. But to assert this right, the legislature must also live up to the responsibility that goes with it, with leaders who are willing to bear it and capable of doing so wisely.

There is a very real danger that financial regulation will become a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Early on, in discussions of financial oversight, people would say, 'Well, this is a very complicated problem, therefore it requires a complicated solution.' And at that step, I would say, 'Well, wait a minute. Just because it's a complicated problem doesn't mean the best course of action immediately is one that's complicated.'

Schools insist that everything is under their purview - what your kids eat, what they believe, what they say on the playground.

When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control.

I think we need more idiot control.

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

No responsible scholar who thinks a sitting president cannot be indicted also thinks an attorney general can try to truncate a process of oversight - by Congress, for example - by 'pre-clearing' the president in advance.

Doctors are human; they make mistakes, and you have to stay on top of them. You have to ask the second question, the third question, the follow-up to the fourth question.

In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur.

Sometimes you're just not in the manager's thoughts.

She stated that the oversight of the Sperres was a very dark chapter: "The Germans threw us a bone and watched with great pleasure how the Jews fought over it among one another.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.

In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules ... but it's impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time.

What's the sense in having an eclipse if you can't look at it? Somebody in production sure slipped up this time!