Quotes About Oversight

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree

responding patrols.

My turn signal had been on since

even lying to myself. Maybe there was nothing I could do on this that the Bureau or Secret Service wasn't already covering.

The Solicitor General is responsible for overseeing appellate litigation on behalf of the United States and with representing the United States in the Supreme Court.

The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.

I've always been comfortable with people who run things, whether it was the principal of my high school or the president of the university.

There is only one person in the State Department that can sign off on State Department personnel being in a facility that doesn't meet security standards, and it's the secretary of state.

I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.

I got ideas above my station, and I made mistakes.

Government should steer, not row.

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

The president can take steps to make sure the American public knows what its Justice Department and FBI have been up to.

In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.

We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.

The people are the only censors of their governors, and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution.

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

In mourning the plumage, he forgot the dying bird

We're not Big Brother, we'll leave that to others.

You would notice if your own personal debit card limit shot up to $40 million dollars. And you'd probably call somebody.

Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.

I am in favour of migration; I simply want to control the numbers.

I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them.