Quotes About Oversight

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

It's not very nice being forgotten about so easily.

Its funny how you can do nice things for people all the time and they never notice. But once you make one mistake, its never forgotten.

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

Without Alfred directing their labours, none of this would have happened.

It was like the Iran/Contra hearings in the last century; then, too, the investigators had looked just so far and no further.

My fantasy is that there is a new regulatory body that is in charge of algorithmic auditing.

It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.

You can't overestimate what happens when you encourage regulators to believe that the goal of regulation is not to regulate.

When you invite the whole world to your party, inevitably someone pees in the beer.

Too-big-to-fail, meet small-enough-to-jail.

intrusive government and layer upon layer of regulatory red tape. When

The problems are hidden inside code and data, which makes them harder to see and easier to ignore.

The rules were explicit: No employee, from the chief executive down to the lowliest mailroom clerk, could talk to the press without a PR minder in tow. The communications department ruthlessly monitored all press coverage, issuing stern correctives to newspapers or magazines that erred on so much as an executive title.

I was so worried about rocking the boat, I failed to spot the iceberg.

Ultimately, intelligence work isn't about satellites, budgets, oversight committees, or high-tech gadgetry. It's about the motivation and skills of your people.

We, the people of Thiaoouba, are assigned to assist, guide and sometimes punish the inhabitants of planets under our guardianship.

Qui regle à sa guise les code at leur circulation dans l'espace peut laisser reposer les veilleurs.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

we have indeed allow one powerful man to get away too much for far too long

The Court has "overseen and sanctioned the growth of an administrative system that concentrates the power to make laws and the power to enforce them in the hands of a vast and unaccountable administrative apparatus that finds no comfortable home in our constitutional structure,

Tanto la ley como la filosofía plantean la pregunta: "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" (¿Quién vigila a los vigilantes?).

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.