Quotes About Oversight

Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

Who guards the guardians?

Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.

One of the responsibilities of Congress is the power of the purse, but there is also oversight. In order to have proper oversight, you have to have agency administrators, directors, and secretaries of those agencies speak frankly and about the facts.

There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president.

The Spectator' has to be managed and people have to report. We all have bosses in this world and that's true of 'The Spectator' too.

Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great.

The Pentagon can't even audit its own books. It doesn't even know where its money is going. And we refuse to have the tough forces go on the Pentagon so that at least they are efficient with the money they're spending.

The Appropriations Committee in the Senate is out of control, out of control on spending.

After almost 50 years in which federal spending averaged about 20 percent of GDP, Joe Sestak and Nancy Pelosi took federal spending to 25 percent. You know, that's a 25 percent increase in the size of the government overnight. That's what we - that's what we've got to rein in.

Is the Justice Department incapable of regulating itself? Without strong regulation, the privileges we give them to investigate us, to conduct their normal anti-crime things, can spiral out of control.

We will follow in letter and spirit whatever the RBI rules and guidelines are - whether at the holding company level or individual company level.

Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.

If there is any way for that man to do the job wrong, he'll do it that way.

Just because the Panjandrums know how to run cheeseburg stands, they think they know how to run a Convox.

A HEB is a steward, not an owner.

If you are given the responsibility, you must be given the authority to match the responsibility.

Army lecture on responsibility, authority, and power? If you are given the responsibility, you must be given the authority to match the responsibility.

Historically, Congress hasn't paid much attention to the confines the Constitution establishes.

The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate.