Quotes About Oversight

The cable law. Prasar Bharati. The Broadcasting Bill. These are all overlapping things.

People can't write whatever they want and get away with it. There is a censor for films and TV, there should be a censor for social media as well.

The President is the CEO of this business that we call America.

I'm always doing my part as a CEO.

When you're the CEO, you take responsibility.

I'm the CEO; I'm the one who should be looking out for risk.

When you're a director, the job itself forces you to take charge.

As mayor, I'm charged with a big-picture agenda.

People elect me to make sure the chief of police is the right chief of police. They elect me to make sure I have the right person running the airport.

We must, we must cut the EPA's legs off. I hate to say that, because it sounds rotten, but they are choking this country to death with legislating through the bureaucracy in Washington.

It is important for American congregations to hold their churches accountable for what their money does in Africa.

If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.

It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.

Banking, I would argue, is the most heavily regulated industry in the world. Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things.

JP Morgan always has higher capital liquidity, that is partially to make up for mistakes and problems and obviously it's a tough economy. We support an oversight committee, we supported some of the compensation, new compensation rules, though we already follow most of them. We support a lot of it.

The press is supposed to serve as a check on government.

Members of the Supreme Court have lifetime tenures because they're not supposed to do politics.

It is a mistake to suppose that the Supreme Court is either honoured or helped by being spoken of as beyond criticism. On the contrary, the life and character of its justices should be the objects of constant watchfulness by all, and its judgments subject to the freest criticism.

There needs to be some regime that is overseeing access to broadband to make sure we have openess; otherwise, there is a risk it won't be open anymore. We spent quite a bit of time with Verizon policy people in addition to participating in a multilateral discussion with the Federal Communications Commission.

Well, surely, I am not in charge of South Africa.

A strong police presence keeps individuals involved in 'street life' from triggering the most severe penalties of the law by providing a surrogate for the self-control and parental oversight that they lack.

Well, I remember a story once where a smith forgot to use one last nail on a horse's shoe, and the shoe came off at the worst time and the horse went lame, and the rider of the horse was tossed and killed, and failed to deliver a message which kept a king from riding into a trap and his kingdom fell when he was killed. So a kingdom was lost, all for the want of a nail.' 'So what nail did we overlook?

when you work for the Government, the Government is twice as aware that you're alive

Discretion can be abused, and rulebooks are important safeguards against that. But the balance has shifted too far in the direction of an obsessive reverence for rules.