Top 95 Quotes About Oversight
#1. The signs are just not subtle enough to pass onto oversight in lieu of self preservation.
Daleen Van Tonder
#3. You can think of the difference between tactical and strategic oversight as the difference between doing things right and doing the right things. Both are required.
Bruce Schneier
#4. Is it a mausoleum, and I, the Egyptiab, mummified with pillows and my own flesh, through some oversight enbalmed alive? There must be some mistake.
Margaret Laurence
#5. If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.
Sal Albanese
#6. But really, my ability to exercise oversight willingly flows from my vision. No, not a vision for an "awesomely bold" church - at least, not at first - but of my God and for the flock of God that is among me.
Jared C. Wilson
#7. The Daily Caller has obtained an advance copy of a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee report set to be released Tuesday morning that definitively proves malicious intent by the IRS to improperly block conservative groups that an IRS adviser deemed 'icky.'
Patrick Howley
#8. The opportunity should not be lost, which is afforded by the occasion, for illustrating and enforcing the thought that the universe, its creation, its arrangement, and all of its developing processes, are not due to human planning or oversight, but to the infinite wisdom and power of God.
Andrew S. Draper
#9. 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.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#10. I believe that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act must be reformed. We must improve the American public's confidence in, and perception of, our national security programs, by increasing transparency, strengthening oversight, and safeguarding civil liberties.
Dutch Ruppersberger
#11. He had an air of magnificent melancholy sophistication, as if his proper place were elsewhere, somewhere infinitely more compelling even than Brakebills, and he'd been confined to his present setting by a grotesque divine oversight, which he tolerated with as much good humor as could be expected.
Lev Grossman
#12. This was a public telephone so it was clearly an oversight that it was working at all.
Douglas Adams
#13. 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.
George Scialabba
#14. Our success has come from the lack of oversight we've provided, and our success will continue to be from a lack of oversight. But if you're going to provide minimal oversight, you have to buy carefully. It's a different model from GE's. GE's works - it's just very different from ours.
Charlie Munger
#15. Edward Snowden, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, professes to have had access to whatever he wanted to know about anyone's anything. If he's telling the truth, why does he have such permeability without any government oversight? Is that OK with you?
Henry Rollins
#16. We don't forget that we are Christians. We forget that we are human, and that one oversight alone can debilitate the potential of our future.
Wayne Cordeiro
#17. 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.
Sibel Edmonds
#18. What I want veterans to know is that VA is here to care for them. VA is a good system - health care wise, safety wise - highly comparable to any other system out there. Our oversight reviews tell us that. I'm very comfortable in the quality of our system.
Eric Shinseki
#19. I think that together the church has learned a lot, and as we know from our own oversight board, the involvement of our wonderful lay leaders has been a real grace.
Roger Mahony
#20. The office has oversight of people who do analysis and oversight of people who do operations, but it is not charged with doing either. That is an important point to make. Those functions are performed by the CIA, DIA and other agencies.
Stephen Cambone
#21. In Britain, a 'block list' of harmful Web sites, used by all the major Internet Service Providers, is maintained by a private foundation with little transparency and no judicial or government oversight of the list.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#22. Emily Dickinson once wrote, 'hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,' and she was right, but she forgot to mention that despair is the thing with claws that tears out your heart. Kind of a major oversight there, Em." pg. 25
Suzanne Sullivan
#23. 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 .
Dianne Feinstein
#24. You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget.
Elizabeth George
#25. 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?'
Robert Sutton Harrington
#26. The fact is that, in all prisons everywhere, cruelties on the one hand and injudicious laxity of discipline on the other have at times appeared and will, at intervals, be renewed except the most vigilant oversight is maintained.
Dorothea Dix
#27. JP Morgan always has higher capital liquidity, that is partially to make up for mistakes and problems and obviously it's a tough economy. We support an oversight committee, we supported some of the compensation, new compensation rules, though we already follow most of them. We support a lot of it.
Jamie Dimon
#28. 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.
Michael Eisner
#29. The inside of the Pentagon is an incredible place and a dramatic set. We do [travel] outside, but the inside workings of the civilian oversight of the military inside the Pentagon is really about as exciting as anything you ever want to deal with. It is really amazing.
Dennis Hopper
#30. A small oversight, but it proved fatal. Small oversights often do.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#31. Some ancient oversight had nearly taken his sight, but this sad fuck was already blind inside.
Carla H. Krueger
#32. Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
Jack Reed
#33. A focused Board concentrates on strategy oversight and governance practices, to avoid getting lost in the forest.
Pearl Zhu
#34. The lesson is the importance of never becoming untethered to oversight and accountability.
James Comey
#35. 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.
B.F. Skinner
#36. There are benefits in the sense that there's still a certain level of confidence. But there are liabilities because you can coordinate and manipulate better as the instruments of oversight are more under your control. You don't have so many rogue operations.
Ted Gup
#37. A lack of government oversight hasn't hindered the Internet. Quite the opposite. A hands-off approach is largely responsible for its fantastic growth and success.
Heather Brooke
#38. We need a return to transparency and a system of checks and balances, to a president who respects Congress' role of oversight and accountability.
Hillary Clinton
#39. I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#40. Congress is supposed to provide oversight, the voters are supposed to provide oversight. And you [the media] were supposed to provide oversight. That's why you have special liberties and that's why you have special protections.
Trey Gowdy
#41. Given the large size of the illegal harvest, ... I find it difficult to understand how this could have been a casual oversight.
Peter DeFazio
#42. I stand by my work on behalf of the citizens of Spokane to further justice and promote civilian oversight of law enforcement.
Rachel Dolezal
#43. I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue to work to assert the role of this body in carrying out this grave responsibility.
Patrick J. Kennedy
#44. 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.
John Poindexter
#45. Generally speaking, the key dimensions of corporate governance are strategy oversight, policy making, accountability, and monitoring.
Pearl Zhu
#46. It would be a serious oversight to limit our understanding of the impact of theology to strictly religious art, and overlook its pervasive role in shaping human understanding and artistic expression thereof within any given culture-regardless of the subject matter at hand.
John Walford
#47. 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.
Edward Snowden
#48. That was the original idea, but once you've got a controlled population with a wall around it and no oversight, you can do anything you want.
Margaret Atwood
#49. It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.
Wen Jiabao
#50. Strategy oversight is important in tuning and updating a dynamic digital strategy.
Pearl Zhu
#51. Rangan came to the surface in the mid-afternoon of Inauguration Day, in the trunk of a car driven by a terrified aide of Senator Barbara Engels, Chairwoman of the Senate Select Oversight Committee on Homeland Security.
Ramez Naam
#52. There is no doubt that the reason for my awful oversight was over-confidence that sapped my sense of danger. So that is where to look for the cause of bad blunders - in the exulting feeling of self-congratulation.
Alexander Kotov
#53. And if you're going to be a leader, you know what I ask myself? Would I want to work for you in this job? Would I let my children work for you? Would I give you this job if I wasn't there to provide oversight? If you went to run another company, would I, as an investor, invest in that company?
Jamie Dimon
#54. As a member of Congress, I believe Congress must provide oversight of actions by the Executive Branch as our system of checks and balances requires.
Charles B. Rangel
#55. It's disingenuous and wrong to say that the attorney general's expanded powers in the Patriot Act come with adequate oversight by the courts, ... In reality, the most troubling provisions in the law make judges little more than rubber stamps in Justice Department investigations.
Anthony Romero
#56. Our current way of regulating the financial system is dysfunctional. Oversight is dispersed among numerous confusing bodies that at times have seemed to be racing each other to the bottom. Setting up One Big Regulator would end that problem.
Thomas Frank
#57. We are very much engaged across the government, very much engaged in streamlining and simplifying our activities with borrowers and lenders, because that saves time and saves costs and we believe we can do that while maintaining the same or increased levels of oversight and risk management.
Karen Mills
#58. I never wanted to be a god, he thought. I wanted only to disappear like a jewel of trace dew caught by the morning. I wanted to escape the angels and the damned - alone ... as though by an oversight.
Anonymous
#59. The promise I've tried to honor my entire career, that the rule of law and the design of the founders, right, the oversight of courts and the oversight of Congress will be at the heart of what the FBI does.
James Comey
#60. I am a Marine Corps veteran, but more importantly - or as important maybe - I'm the chairman of the Oversight Investigation Subcommittee and the House Veterans Affair Committee.
Mike Coffman
#61. If we really want our students to become wild readers, independent of our support and oversight, sometimes the best thing we can do is get out of the way.
Donalyn Miller
#62. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar turned out to be all hat and no cattle with his sorry oversight of the Minerals Management Service.
Tina Brown
#63. We need to build on what we know works - local oversight of schools to keep a check on performance, timely interventions in schools to support those at risk of failing, and partnerships between schools to help each one to improve.
David Blunkett
#64. I do think it's true that a huge amount of the oversight that the White House engages in with respect to the Executive Branch is out of fear that somebody's going to do something crazy and drive the president off a cliff.
Donald Verrilli Jr.
#65. It existed almost by oversight, "far removed from reality," as one of the "Kandy Kids" wrote, "where everyone had an academic interest in the war but found life far too pleasant to do anything too drastic about it.
Bob Spitz
#66. The Federal Reserve has always recognized the importance of allowing markets to work, and government oversight of financial firms will never be fully effective without the aid of strong market discipline.
Ben Bernanke
#67. Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.
Barbara Olson
#68. I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.
Darrell Issa
#69. 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.
Jamie Dimon
#71. When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
Maggie Gallagher
#72. I want to emphasis again, Governor (Thomas) Kean and Congressman (Lee) Hamilton pointed out that congressional oversight also was a major contributor to our failures prior to 9/11 and that has to be fixed as well.
John McCain
#73. 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.
Ann Kirkpatrick
#74. Oversight versus Insight: Most of us want to oversee the situation without insight of the situation. Knowledge is King.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#75. For the past three years, the Senate intelligence committee has avoided carrying out its oversight of our nation's intelligence programs whenever the White House becomes uncomfortable with the questions being asked. The very independence of this committee is called into question.
Jay Rockefeller
#76. 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.
Jorge Luis Borges
#77. Saturate your day in His grace.
Entrust your day to His oversight.
Accept His direction.
Grace, Oversight, Direction
G-O-D
Max Lucado
#78. 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.
Steve Jobs
#79. The mole rat is the only rodent born without a fur coat. With a good lawyer, someone would pay for that little oversight.
Erma Bombeck
#80. A sovereignty is always presumed to act upon principles of justice, and if, from mistake or oversight, it does injury to a nation or an individual, it is always supposed to be ready and willing to repair it.
Roger B. Taney
#81. 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.
Elon Musk
#82. So, given that the vast majority of humans who ever lived are not alive today, it would be an oversight to ignore their insights.
Robert Lanza
#83. Have a defined mission with clear goals and timelines. I still trust the staff, with as little oversight as possible. Do things to show them that their time is as valuable to you as it is to them. Don't be afraid to 'fly solo.'
Pete Olson
#84. Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.
Ted Yoho
#85. The NSA should keep close watch on suspected terrorists to keep our country safe - through programs permitting due process, the naming of a suspect, and oversight by an accountable court.
Rand Paul
#86. We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must have sufficient congressional debate and oversight before ever putting another U.S. solider in harm's way.
Barbara Lee
#87. Kingdom Authority is the God-given mandate of Christians to exercise control over the world in the name of Jesus and under His oversight.
Adrian Rogers
#88. Innovation is too important to leave solely in the hands of the management team without any Board oversight or guidance
Pearl Zhu
#89. An immigration violation should not give the government license to rip up the rule book. By restricting judicial oversight and blocking public scrutiny, the government has exercised virtually unchecked power over those it has detained.
Jamie Fellner
#90. Privacy is tremendously important. I believe the American people, and all people, should be skeptical of government power, should ask hard questions: What is the authority? What is the oversight? That's the way it ought to be.
James Comey
#91. 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.
Lee Iacocca
#92. Everything is about accountability to the American people, accountability of the executive branch ... [and] accountability of the oversight of the Congress
Jay Rockefeller
#93. It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.
Bob Barr
#94. It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.
Robert H. Jackson
#95. It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
Will Durant
