Quotes About Oversight

I hold head coaches accountable.

Be aware and hold the government accountable.

The fault always lies in the candidate or the head coach or the guy holding the ball.

Though MSV and Ramamurthi have been bestowed with many honours,it is sad that they were not considered for national honours like the Padma awards.

Leader Reid is doing a horrendous job.

Before being elected to Congress, I oversaw the Cook County Hospital System as a Cook County Commissioner for 10 years.

And be careful of this, that each day at your meals you have two overseers over your household when you sit at meals, and of this be sure, that you shall be very much feared and reverenced.

It has been raised many times whether media, corporate houses, sports bodies and NGOs should come under RTI or not. It is not up to you or me to decide. It is up to the government to decide on that.

I give people a huge amount of rope, and then I hold them accountable for the rope.

You could be a senior senator and have never managed more than a hundred people in your life.

Oops, we didn't fire nearly enough people

There were idiots amongst them – morons. I often opened my mouth too wide and let them have it. 'My God,' I'd say to them, 'euthanasia passed you by, didn't it,' and I'd tell my wife when I got home, 'these morons got overlooked by the euthanasia.

Lenz snorts. "My mistake.

I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.

These are people who don't believe the government can possibly get too big. It's not possible for it to get too big. It's not possible for the government to get too powerful. It's not possible. And yet they are worried at the 'New York Times' about what is happening to it under the guidance of the presidency and Mr. Obama.

One of the worries about a presidency is that everybody tells you yes. Nobody helps you figure out where your blind spots are.

I mean, everyone agrees with stress tests for banks. I mean that's clear. But banks should do that on their own. And they should worry about their own capital functioning. That's what they should do. It shouldn't be a government function.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.

The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients.

Give me the whole world to run and then I'll be happy. If tomorrow I was told I had to sort out the whole world's problems I'd sleep like a baby.

Beginning with the Clinton Administration and rapidly accelerating with the George W. Bush and Obama regimes and Tony Blair in England, the U.S. and U.K. governments have run roughshod over their accountability to law.

Everything in Formula 1 has been sterilised now, the whole thing is controlled too much.

The U.S. government has a problem with dead people. For one thing, it pays them way too much money.

When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.