Quotes About Oversight

Just remember, the mass of the people in China have little or no idea what their leaders are up to, and even less control.

It's not about electing the right people. It's about a narrowing their responsibilities.

Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government.

Massified populations cannot exercise self-control very well since they depend on constant oversight to behave as required. When external controls are removed, anything becomes possible.

Article 1, Section 9, Clause 7 of the Constitution empowers Congress and makes the United States a democracy by guaranteeing that the people's representatives will know what governmental agencies are

The second principle revolves around the belief that no one is above the law, not even those

2006 Congressional Pig Book were

The power to investigate is a great public trust.

Not only does a bureaucracy thus tend to under-government, in point of quality; it tends to over-government, in point of quantity.

The House of Commons has inquired into most things, but has never had a committee on "the Queen". There is no authentic blue-book to say what she does. Such an investigation cannot take place; but if it could, it would probably save her much vexatious routine, and many toilsome and unnecessary hours.

I accidentally skipped Sotaro.

A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done.

Network operators need reasonable leeway to manage their networks.

All schools that receive public funding should be accountable, yes.

I think at the end of the day with any technology, whether you're talking about facial recognition technology or anything else, the people that use the technology have to be responsible for it, and if they use it irresponsibly, they have to be held accountable.

The reality is even if you are a hands-on Mayor or Governor or chief executive, at best, you must know about 10 or 20% of what's going on. Otherwise, you never get through the day... I was very hands on, and there's lots of stuff I didn't know, and lots of things that either went wrong or right that I would find out about afterwards.

When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.

A head coach has to be able to oversee all facets of the team and of the game.

We don't want the federal government coming in and telling us how to do our environmental remediation or how we're going to do our healthcare.

And they've got to be held accountable; our broadcasting system has to be made accountable; and unless it is, it's going to be very hard to change anything else for the better in this country.

The job of every president is to ride herd over Congress.

It is high time SoCalGas is held responsible for its actions.

The pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others.

The Paycheck Protection Program has been vital to helping our small businesses and workers weather the coronavirus pandemic. Yet this program has operated with little oversight, and we've seen Kansas small businesses owners struggle to access relief while large corporations with deep pockets have no problem.