Quotes About Oversight

I think there's a need for more oversight by social workers, because there are a lot of foster parents who are just collecting checks. They need to look closely into the backgrounds of the people whose hands you're putting the kids into and then continue to monitor them.

In the 114th Congress, I had the privilege of serving on two of the most important Committees in the House of Representatives: the House Armed Services Committee and the Committee on Education and the Workforce.

The president - every president - works for us. We don't work for him. We sometimes lose track of this, or rather get the balance wrong. Respect is due and must be palpable, but now and then you have to press, to either force them to be forthcoming or force them to reveal that they won't be.

No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law just because they are responsible for upholding the law. Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely, just like what happened to Laquan McDonald.

One side effect of having teams is there will always be things that fall through the cracks. Teams create territories.

I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.

If the FDA would spend a little less time and effort on small manufacturers of vitamins...and a little more on the large manufacturers of...dangerous drugs..., the public would be better served.

We don't always need to be sitting at the foot of the teacher, but from time to time we need someone who can overview us and give us direction.

Sometimes it turns out that we had missed a clue along the way, made a genuine mistake. Sometimes we turn out wrong despite doing everything right.

Even good doctors can go bad, and when they do, colleagues tend to be almost entirely unequipped to do anything about them.

He ignored the obvious on X rays.

They'd not only nearly killed the man but also failed to recognize how.

The people owed it to themselves to monitor those who governed.

Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.

People can be stunningly unobservant.

There is no ownership. There is only stewardship.

If it was up to me, people unable to live independently would be cared for in small, humane hospitals subject to strong oversight and addicts would be offered clean beds, three squares, and serious detox, and if that didn't work, supervised dosage of drugs.

Fifth, while the current mood, reflected in the Dodd-Frank Act, is to limit the LLR's powers, the right response is to increase them while subjecting the LLR to equal-treatment principles that restrict favoritism.

Leadership is also quite different from just doing your job well.

Today the U.S. government can demand the nation-wide recall of defective softball bats, sneakers, stuffed animals, and foam-rubber toy cows. But it cannot order a meatpacking company to remove contaminated, potentially lethal ground beef from fast food kitchens and supermarket shelves.

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Operation Claret proceeded with the sort of smoothness that suggested no one in authority was paying adequate attention.

Merging the SEC and CFTC was a political nonstarter because they were overseen by separate committees in Congress. The congressional oversight committees jealously guarded their turf because the market players regulated by the two agencies could be counted on to provide lucrative campaign contributions.

I asked for daily reports on developments at major financial firms and,