Quotes About Oversight

The CVC and CAG are independent but merely recommendatory. The government often ignores their advice.

People are always asking 'how could the politicians let X happen with Y?' where Y is something important. People find it hard to believe that Y is not the focus of serious attention and therefore things like X are bound to happen all the time.

In my opinion taking charge of a well-prepared team is not a big job.

In the end, the responsibility of government abuse lies with the president.

You don't make a system more effective by increasing the number of regulators.

I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.

Ui: I don't muzzle the animal that does my heavy lifting. I overlook the foibles of my employees.

Being President is a lot like running a cemetery. You've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.

Being President is like being the groundskeeper in a cemetery: there are a lot of people under you, but none of them are listening.

I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.

The authorities aren't always up to the job.

The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.

Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things. If we could figure out that the subprime thing was a train wreck that was coming, where were the regulators?

Sometimes there's something that a writer doesn't see or a producer doesn't see when he's looking at a shot.

Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.

We are totally open kimono with regulators.

I feel responsibility for a lot of things that I manage to touch.

Regulators at the Food and Drug Administration have a tough job.

I don't cover golf tournaments anymore - I preside over them.

The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.

108 members of congress have signed onto my Resolution of No Confidence in Attorney General Holder as a first step towards recognizing that he must be held accountable for the actions of his department and for his personal unwillingness to cooperate with congressional oversight requests.

I am not a supporter of the rhetoric of, 'Dear, dear, the toys have got lead paint.' If I had a manufacturer in China that allowed that to happen, I'd fire them instantly.

I got cribs all over the place and offices all over the place, and sometimes I lose track of my stuff.

That's what I love about being mayor. Even if the problem is getting the cat out of the tree - from that to the biggest problem, you're in charge. No ambiguity. Leaders lead.