Quotes About Oversight

At home what is 'wonderful' tends to be an exception that's arranged; it is useful, or at least edifying. In Persia it might just as well spring from an oversight, or a sin, or a catastrophe which, by breaking the normal run of events, offers life unexpected scope for unfolding its splendours before eyes that are always ready to rejoice in them.

The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity.

The problem with tradition is that it can cause even an error of great magnitude to go unnoticed

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

What if this had been caused by your inattention?

Between 1994 and 2015, the quota of oxycodone that the DEA permitted to be legally manufactured was raised thirty-six times. A subsequent report by the inspector general of the Justice Department criticized the DEA for being "slow to respond to the dramatic increase in opioid abuse.

Barbara Moulton who had spent five years as a drug examiner at the FDA before resigning in protest. The agency had "failed utterly" in its task of policing the way prescription drugs were marketed and sold, she testified. Moulton described an environment at the FDA of unrelenting pressure from the drug companies and a culture in which regulators, rather than regulate the drug companies and their products, showed slavish deference to the private sector.

Department of Justice concluded its investigation without so much as interviewing any member of the family. The authorities were so deferential toward the Sacklers that nobody had even bothered to question them.

The Committee on Oversight and Reform of the U.S. House of Representatives announced that it would hold a hearing on "The Role of Purdue Pharma and the Sackler Family in the Opioid Epidemic

Keeping the human race in check must require a lot of multitasking.

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

He knew very little about running a case, and everything about watching over people's shoulders.

The chief of the leaders of the Levites was Eleazar son of Aaron the priest; he oversaw those responsible for the duties of the sanctuary.

Eleazar son of Aaron the priest shall oversee the oil for the light, the fragrant incense, the daily grain offering, and the anointing oil. He has oversight of the entire tabernacle and everything in it, including the holy objects and their utensils.”

Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah were overseers under the authority of Conaniah and his brother Shimei, by appointment of King Hezekiah and of Azariah the chief official of the house of God.

Without a commander, without an overseer or ruler,

So he called him in to ask, ëWhat is this I hear about you? Turn in an account of your management, for you cannot be manager any longer.í