Quotes About Oversight

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

Management has no power. Management has only responsibility." I

At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.

At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.

We have to ensure we are aggressively enforcing existing laws.

Tasmania needs a watchdog, not a lap dog.

Luckily, as a director I can just tell people what I need and I don't need to tell them how to get it.

To manage your country, there's no bigger job.

I don't really like event managing - I don't even manage my house.

Congress has the power to make laws, but the president can veto them, and vetoes can be overridden only by congressional supermajorities. The president and his executive branch enforce the laws, but there is congressional and judicial oversight. The judiciary interprets the Constitution and the laws, but judges are nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate.

People sense things that are invisible. But when something's staring you right in the face, that's when you miss it completely.

This mess calls for leadership in the worst way.

never attribute to malice that which could be explained by stupidity.

The Member and Employee Training and Oversight On (ME TOO) Congress Act called for more transparency, streamlined the procedure for reporting harassment, and ensured that taxpayers weren't paying for settlements. It stripped away the mandatory nondisclosure agreement and the mediation. The victims would be provided legal counsel, and interns and fellows would be covered by the law as well.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

With the possible exception of ancient Rome, no society has ever auditioned for the role of world policeman. Certainly the United States—at least through the end of the twentieth century—never desired that part. As for the UN, it has shown the ability to play world night watchman. It can monitor and raise the alarm, but it cannot guarantee that the alarm, once sounded, will be answered.

A commander in chief who tries to circumvent the Constitution should be restrained by the legislature and judiciary.

Our system never holds a bad prosecutor accountable.

If a prosecutor gets caught cheating, he either gets reelected or elevated to the bench. Our system never holds a bad prosecutor accountable. The

Has anything bad ever happened in YOUR life? Anything bad that could have been stopped, if only someone had been paying better attention?...And you, Kanan? Is there something bad that could have been prevented, if someone had been watching over you?...EVERYBODY'S got something like that.

At least if we don't close down the Environmental Protection Agency, we at least put a snaffle bit on them and ride the pony down.

Sometimes even excellent Homer nods.

It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable.

But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.