Oversight Quotes

Oversight Quote of the day

We need a return to transparency and a system of checks and balances, to a president who respects Congress' role of oversight and accountability.

And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings.

I'm increasingly inclined to think there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level just to make sure that we don't do something very foolish.

A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.

Everything is about accountability to the American people, accountability of the executive branch ... [and] accountability of the oversight of the Congress.

We live in a new time and a new place, and people have to begin to be ready for the kind of oversight that the public is demanding.

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be background noise.

He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses-clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of disdain.

Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people.

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

The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to.

It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.

I think we need editorial oversight now more than ever. Anything we can do to help newspapers find new ways of expression that will help them get paid, I am all for.

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

By boosting oversight and accountability, we can empower the VA in its core mission of helping the men and women who have served our country.

He who knows how to teach a child is not competent for the oversight of a child's education unless he also knows how to train a child.

If someone says they shouldn't have to follow regulations because they're making food in their home, I'd say, 'Why is your home so safe that it doesn't need that level of oversight and control?'

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.

I stand by my work on behalf of the citizens of Spokane to further justice and promote civilian oversight of law enforcement.

Given the large size of the illegal harvest, ... I find it difficult to understand how this could have been a casual oversight.

I think there's always a role for Congress under every instance in every administration to conduct oversight of the executive branch.

It felt like an oversight to me, something that needed to be corrected. They [women who hid Jewish children] deserved to be understood and remembered.

They're on you day and night. Their oversight is just too extreme [. . .] That's why our 10-year loan, we paid it back in three years. We couldn't stand the government. The bureaucracy kills you.

And in an issue with this kind of concern to a committee that bears the oversight responsibility, I think you can see that we're very dismayed about it .

If you have the choice, it's far better to say, "That person has the job, and they really don't need that much of my oversight." Maybe they don't need any of it.

The more powerful a person or institution is, the more transparent - open to public inspection or oversight - its activities should be. The less powerful, the less transparent.

Ethics and oversight are what you eliminate when you want absolute power.