Quotes About Oversight

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Over the last ten years, when she could have been cultivating Varencienne's friendship, she had left her to her own devices. What an oversight not to realize the quiet little teenager would turn into a stubborn and independent woman. Varencienne had been a nobody here in Magrast, hidden in the shadow of her brothers. In Caradore, she'd found status and power, things that any Malagash craved, although Varencienne herself would be the last to admit it.

Football, or soccer as it is known, is a game of two halves. It's a game with rules and a referee. FIFA, the governing body for football, follows neither the rule of law or has the oversight of a referee.

We need to fix this. It hasn't been done yet because there's still a reluctance to admit that there was even a problem - anywhere above seven rogue soldiers who got out of control on the night shift.

And shortly after that, when I try to get access to those soldiers, to ask them what in the world was going on, I was told that they did not work for me and I had no right to have access to any one of them.

Our soldiers deserve better. They need a plan for success. They need an administration that is honest about the costs of war, human and otherwise, and they need full accountability and oversight on Capitol Hill.

We want combination solutions at the state level, at the local level - whether we've learned from the Chinese about creating what we've been calling COVID wards - creating the ability to actually care for larger numbers of clients and patients in a more concentrated way which allows more oversights so we could really track patients.

I'm not against censorship in principle. Not at all. Some things should be censored.

There are checks and balances in science. There's somebody checking the people doing the science, and then there's somebody who checks the checkers and somebody who checks the checker's checkers.

Oh, yes, how remiss of me. I forgot that you can have an entire herd of wives.

When you give the government an inch, they take a mile.

Running a government as chief minister and managing affairs of the nation are different things.

Ministers may not be responsible for administrative errors, but they are responsible for major policy blunders.

The whole system is overseen by the government-created Federal Reserve System, which presides over a system-wide cartel.

how extremely stupid not to have thought of that

Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance, be unable to administer and overlook all the details necessary for the good government of the citizens; and the same circumstance, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite public agents to corruption, plunder and waste.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

That decades had to pass before a mistake with obvious negative consequences began to be corrected is one sign of the problems of decisions by third parties who pay no price for being wrong.

They better be darn ready to show a detailed file of all of the other steps they took before they overruled the [lead investigator's] judgment, the person in the best position to determine whether or not there was probably cause to arrest George Zimmerman."

It's inevitable that when there are hundreds of thousands of bureaucrats with endless budgets, who have no accountability and can't be fired, that these things are bound to happen.

Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money. It doesn't appear to belong to anyone. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.

Cea mai important? ?tire a zilei de azi a fost aceea c? a r?s?rit soarele. Dar niciun gazetar nu a consemnat-o.

Leaders are responsible for the design and operation of processes at a higher level of aggregation where others have less perspective and authority.