Quotes About Oversight

Holding Congressional hearings is the purview of the majority, and during the first years of the Obama administration, Democrats could not be bothered.

Sometimes the government is the last to know.

we really fucked up the engineering on this

What's the sense in having an eclipse if you can't look at it? Somebody in production sure slipped up this time!

the director's

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

Management must manage!

If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.

I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.

I think I took my eye off the ball. From about 2005 2006 2007, I was out of it. I thought I could oversee movies and have it done for me, so to speak.

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

The right hand doesn't know what the left is doing" is a phrase that refers to times when people ought to know, but don't know, about something that is happening very close to them. For instance, you ought to know about the man who watches you when you sleep.

supervision—sprinkling

Everybody does something wrong at one time or another.

Necesito el gerente.

Isn't the media supposed to keep government responsible?

I wanted to keep it from Jane's knowledge; but, unluckily, I had mentioned it before I was aware.

I worry whoever thought up the term 'quality control' thought if we didn't control it, it would get out of hand.

were bond enforcement. "I guess I forgot my date

Everyone makes mistakes, and they never go unnoticed when you're in the public eye.

I introduced the Transparency in Government Act, a multi-faceted transparency bill that would bring unprecedented access and accountability to the federal government.

Public interest is a very unruly horse.

The reality is that companies are full of things that are left unspoken. And even when they are out in the open, the CEO is almost always the last to know.