Quotes About Oversight

Big government doesn't work! It just doesn't work!

I stand by my work on behalf of the citizens of Spokane to further justice and promote civilian oversight of law enforcement.

If everyone has to be a watchdog in order to make government work, then the foxes will also volunteer to serve.

As PM, you have got to do everything from chairing the Cabinet to ceremonial things. You have also got to do the nitty gritty. I do get stuck into the detail.

Responsibility always exceeds authority

What was everybody's business in the end proved to be nobody's business. Each one looked to the other to take the lead, and the aggressorsgot away with it.

Deregulation has been, above all else, a means of reducing corporate business's accountability to the public.

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

Good regulation should be conducive to business and to customer protection.

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

Everybody's business is nobody's business.

Being able to do everything in the business doesn't necessarily mean you should do everything.

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.

The way to stop financial "joy-riding" is to arrest the chauffeur not the automobile.

The trouble with all this, she said to him, is that it leaves so much out.

Real finance has human oversight and trusted responsibility all through it — and not automated systems that humans can't touch. Unfortunately, Libra's Bitcoin ancestry was still clear in the design of the system.

The only legitimate purpose of congressional investigations is to determine whether there should be legislation to deal with certain problems and how that legislation should be designed.

As an MP, it is my job to hold the government to account.

No one in the Emirates is above the law and accountability.

The job of media is the accountability of government.

I support accountability.

The only way we are held accountable is if people know what government is doing.

The NCAA is acting like they can or are willing to self-police. It doesn't appear that they are willing to do it to the degree that they should.

While dreaming of the fulfilment of his schemes, he always overlooked the means of attainment. "When my son has children," said his other, "he will want them born grown up.