Quotes About Oversight

Large financial institutions in this country will always play a role that is essential to our economic growth. But they must only be permitted to grow and interconnect, throughout our economy, under careful oversight and with a mechanism for allowing those connections to be broken safely.

sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes?

Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.

No one is accountable anymore for anything. No one did anything wrong. Well, you're to blame. That's to blame. This is to blame.

In England, your manager is like a boss.

No, if there is an aspect of the executive branch of the government that needs looking at, I'm liable to be called in to look at it. But I'm not the only one.

Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.

I have to take responsibility for anything that happened within its businesses.

The president is in charge of the military so that a single individual - accountable to Americans - is responsible for its successes and failures.

Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.

I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue to work to assert the role of this body in carrying out this grave responsibility.

South Sudan has faced numerous challenges, which include professionalising the security sector, establishing ministries and parliamentary structures with the appropriate capacity for policy making and oversight, as well as improving community safety and access to justice.

If medical doctors can be sued for malpractice, shouldn't financial professionals practice under the same safeguard?

The most challenging part of being a boss is that nobody will tell you if your work is suffering.

That's the very essence of pork barrelism, when you give a huge lump sum to a person and say, 'Well, tell us what you want it for, but you are free to decide where to spend it on.'

'Sunday, Bloody Sunday' was the only time I've been directed properly.

Sunlight is better than secrecy when it comes to making laws.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

In such cases, the greatest responsibility for avoiding the planning fallacy lies with the decision makers who approve the plan. If they do not recognize the need for an outside view, they commit a planning fallacy.

can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

If you want to deter misconduct, you should tolerate some noise.

With authority comes responsibility.

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

The censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people.