Quotes About Oversight

Paul also lists one of the gifts of the Spirit as "administration" (1 Cor. 12:28). The word literally means "steersman," "helmsman," and must refer to the gift of leadership in the churches, "a true director of its order and therefore of its life.

Big mistakes were made in Benghazi, and people should be held accountable. But the brave officers who staff American posts in crisis zones know how dangerous the work is.

No matter how lofty you are in your department, the responsibility for what your lowliest assistant is doing is yours.

You can't delegate turning a company around.

I think they, Peter McCullough was, turns out was not a good CEO.

As soon as the boss decides he wants his workers to do something, he has two problems: making them do it and monitoring what they do.

Ultimately, an aircraft owner does not want to have to deal with all the intricate details which are necessary for the business.

Most child welfare agencies tend to embrace secrecy because the people who lead them tend to be mediocre and don't want you to see how poor a job they are doing.

I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

Sometimes the scandal is not what law was broken, but what the law allows.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar turned out to be all hat and no cattle with his sorry oversight of the Minerals Management Service.

As director of CIA, I was responsible for everything done in the agency's name, and it didn't matter whether that was done by an agency employee, a government contractor, a liaison service on our behalf, or a source on our behalf.

A sovereignty is always presumed to act upon principles of justice, and if, from mistake or oversight, it does injury to a nation or an individual, it is always supposed to be ready and willing to repair it.

Oftentimes, secrecy involves creating spaces that are outside of the law but are outside the normal channels of oversight. And I think it's pretty easy to see that if you create spaces that are essentially outside the law, then you're creating spaces where anything can happen.

avoidance of small mistakes makes the large ones more severe.

He defaults to thinking that what he doesn't see is not there, or what he does not understand does not exist. At the core, he tends to mistake the unknown for the nonexistent.

Light control works; close control leads to overreaction

We call this the problem of silent evidence.

and lack of vigilance on the part of the bank.

while the lives saved by the drug might not be accounted for anywhere.

do not seem to be taken into account.

The all-seeing government can be very nearsighted when it comes to scrutinizing the actions of its own appendages.

Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.

'Karzzz' was a mistake.