Quotes About Oversight

I've done dumb things.

If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.

I want to hold government accountable and help create a more efficient and effective government.

There are elements of Dodd-Frank that clearly need to be curtailed.

The EPA has a history of overreaching its authority.

Local authorities keep an eye on proceedings. The Saigon Protestant Church in Ho Chi Minh City, for instance, one of the biggest in the country, has to submit a list of its event schedules, financial records and appointments of Church leaders to government officials for their prior approval.

her. "But I may ask you to let me check it occasionally

I remember that a wise friend of mine did usually say, "That which is everybody's business is nobody's business."

People never notice anything.

you need a license to drive, have a dog, or even to fish—but they'll let anyone be a father.

They're so busy playing, they've taken their eyes off the board

During my time at HubSpot, I was shocked to see how badly managed the company was and how packs of inexperienced twenty-something employees were being turned loose and given huge responsibility with little or no oversight. In the world of start-ups that is now the norm, not the exception.

It's a blessing and a curse to have your whole life viewed by millions.

Congress must hold those responsible for unfairly targeting organizations based on their ideological views accountable.

The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life difficult for them by constant vigilance as to how they exercise the power they only hold in trust from the people.

The fact is that, in all prisons everywhere, cruelties on the one hand and injudicious laxity of discipline on the other have at times appeared and will, at intervals, be renewed except the most vigilant oversight is maintained.

The AON Training Complex is not a training ground now: it's a village. It is difficult for anyone to keep tabs on everything.

Don't turn a blind eye to corruption. Effective and strong intervention is needed to make administration corruption free down to the level of village office.

Almost every day, you see an article in the papers about someone violating a campaign finance law.

The federal, state, and local governments are involved in virtually every aspect of business.

We should never again have an attorney general capable of saying virtually nothing as the law of major intelligence programs and the integrity of his department's work in overseeing these programs are assailed over a protracted period of time.

My goal is to give our taxpayers greater access and visibility into how their taxpayer dollars are being spent.

If many things in the past have gone wrong in the lives of men and in the lives of their communities, it is because both small- and large-scale activities were blundered into without any thought or vision of universal planning.

Choose to take care of the careless and you will end up having nought