Quotes About Oversight

There's a smokestack on the back of every government program.

We should never forget the government should be held accountable for providing services.

It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.

I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.

The great problem with government is that it never goes bankrupt.

The role of government is to create responsible greed to keep boundaries around what people do.

Anything that the private sector can do, the government can do it worse.

Government is not competent enough to regulate.

My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government.

It is hardly lack of due process for the Government to regulate that which it subsidizes.

Anyplace market forces have been artificially removed by the government there is a total absence of incentives, competition, effective oversight, cost controls and so on.

Leaks are good. There is too much secrecy in our government. Sometimes the government knows about a problem and it takes a leak to embarrass the bureaucracy and get them to do something about it.

Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government.

Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.

If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing?

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.

If government were a plant, it would be kudzu.

You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.

The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very use of the law is the instrument of illegality.

Governments everywhere, including here in the Unites States, have created ever-expanding bureaucracies that regulate nearly every aspect of our lives.

They say it's the responsibility of the media to look at government - especially the President - with a microscope. I don't argue with that, but when they use a proctoscope, it's going too far.

Enforcement isn't about big government or small government. It's about whether government works and who it works for.

The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.

Big Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It's great "customer service," except that you can never get out of the store.