Quotes About Oversight

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.

she had violated one of the basic tenets of any competent cook: she had purchased a turkey without comparing its size to the size of her oven.

That's how every act of carelessness begins and ends. No one will notice, no one will hear, no one will pay the least bit of attention. Easy to say, but is it true?

Everyone—including people who vehemently oppose any form of federal government—depend on a sprawling supply chain that can only function with federal oversight, and most of them pay roughly one-third of their income in taxes for the right to participate in this system.

The corporate state, Wolin told me, is "legitimated by elections it controls." To extinguish democracy, it rewrites and distorts laws and legislation that once protected democracy. Basic rights are, in essence, revoked by judicial and legislative fiat. Courts and legislative bodies, in the service of corporate power, reinterpret laws to strip them of their original meaning in order to strengthen corporate control and abolish corporate oversight.

Near deadlock diminishes the legislature's ability to exercise vigorous oversight of the executive and opens the way for an unprecdented assertion of executive power, especially if a legislature is riddled with corruption.

There is hardly a facet of life that is now free of some sort of federal action.

Je hebt echt overal aan gedacht,' zei ze. Will keek op en schudde ontkennend zijn hoofd. 'Dat betwijfel ik,' zei hij ernstig. 'Hoe goed je ook alles plant, hoe goed je je voorbereidt - je hebt nooit aan alles gedacht.

I said, "But, William, someone had to know this was going to happen! I mean in the government, someone had to know and they looked away.

Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.

In the absence of full-fledged Congressional investigations, American policymakers rarely look back. They are bound by continuity and fealty across administrations and generations.

People looked to rating agencies to do the work for them.

Before the CFPB, there was no single agency or entity within the federal government tasked with protecting Americans from predatory or negligent practices of banks, credit card companies, mortgage lenders, payday lenders, credit rating agencies and other financial service businesses.

Understanding how the media actually works is critical. Because editors depend on ignorance and media illiteracy to ply their trade. The fact that many readers expect fact checking, editorial oversight, and ethics actually makes it easier for the media to be lazy.

If you ever had the misfortune of reading all 2,000 pages of Dodd-Frank, which I have done - and it almost killed me - basically, all it does is create a list of all the things it wants the Fed to fix.

The jobs of manager and director of football are too big for one individual - this I realised very quickly.

Governance is very important in NBFCs.

Strong governance is very, very important.

Citizens need to know how their countries are being run so that they can hold governments and big business to account.

Mayors are accountable. Local governments are accountable.

One thing is clear: Our governments have too many laws.

Cameras in the courtroom is a great idea.

Accountability and democratic choice, I deeply believe, are guaranteed by rigorous scrutiny only.