Quotes About Oversight

No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or won't scrutinize their actions

The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me.

I'll lift up the good work that is happening and hold officers or departments that engage in unconstitutional policing accountable.

My role is more like a chairman and founder. I am used to overseeing the company's heritage and our strategy.

We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA.

I always assign auditors to strictly supervise the businesses.

While people out there on the spot certainly have to be held accountable for what they've done personally, the chain of command responsibility for this strikes me as just as important and should be dealt with.

In the U.S., you have so many rules, everything's regulated and structured. When you make a mistake, you pay for it -a lot.

I am completely opposed to the concept of big data.

Mexico established a unique three-part governing system shared by the government, the information commission and civil society organisations.

I certainly couldn't run a big country house, nor could I organize the greatest show on earth.

I certainly think cameras ought to be in courtrooms.

It was not the president's responsibility to run a law enforcement operation. It was ours.

I took on the role of CEO, which involves directing the Management Team and overall day-to-day operations of 500.

You can sometimes get the big head and overlook things.

It is correct that I overlooked the contamination of the party, not just now but also in the past.

You know, you don't need a leader to sort of administer something that's going very well. In fact, in one sense, an overly ambitious person in that circumstance can probably screw it up.

We are very much engaged across the government, very much engaged in streamlining and simplifying our activities with borrowers and lenders, because that saves time and saves costs and we believe we can do that while maintaining the same or increased levels of oversight and risk management.

A lack of government oversight hasn't hindered the Internet. Quite the opposite. A hands-off approach is largely responsible for its fantastic growth and success.

We have institutionalized a drone program where the oversight is almost completely internalized.

I think that together the church has learned a lot, and as we know from our own oversight board, the involvement of our wonderful lay leaders has been a real grace.

The lesson is the importance of never becoming untethered to oversight and accountability.

As a member of Congress, a coequal branch of government designed by our founders to provide checks and balances on the executive branch, I believe that lawmakers must fulfill our oversight duty as well as keep the American people informed of the current danger.

It is crucial that the House exercises its oversight functions to ensure constitutional accountability of government agencies, especially as the bureaucracies associated with ObamaCare and Dodd-Frank flex their muscles and seek to expand their authority.