Quotes About Oversight

Where the U.N. is concerned, accountability is very thin on the ground in general.

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.

Power must never be trusted without a check.

The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.

What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

If you can turn off certain categories of law, do you not also have the power to turn off all categories of law?

How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess.

Surveillance of power is one of the most important ways to ensure that power does not abuse its status. But, of course, power does not like to be watched.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Just be glad you're not getting all the government you're paying for

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

Some of you people just about missed it

Good political institutions are those that make it as easy as possible to detect whether a ruler or policy is a mistake, and to remove rulers or policies without violence when they are.

systems of government are to be judged not for their prophetic ability to choose and install good leaders and policies, but for their ability to remove bad ones that are already there.

It's those who do not have the power to hire and fire who are left with the work of figuring out what actually did go wrong

Stewarship responsibility.

Kingdom Authority is the God-given mandate of Christians to exercise control over the world in the name of Jesus and under His oversight.

If I were a CEO of a company and ran it like God runs the universe, I'd be fired.

It's not enough for an official to be good. There has to be a system that forces them to be good.

The mole rat is the only rodent born without a fur coat. With a good lawyer, someone would pay for that little oversight.

A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can.

If they are the league ain't doing a good job of it.