Oversight Quotes

62 quotes by 59 authors

It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone. — Bob Barr
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… — Trey Gowdy
The methods that will most effectively minimize the ability of intruders to compromise information security are comprehensive user training and education. Enacting policies and procedures… — Kevin Mitnick
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… — Jorge Luis Borges
On the Glass-Steagall thing, like I said, if you could demonstrate to me that it was a mistake, I'd be glad to look at the… — William J. Clinton
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… — Anthony Romero
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… — Edward Snowden
We must not falsely teach American history in our schools. We have a law requiring state textbook oversight to guard against frauds like Zinn, and… — Mitch Daniels
When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. — Maggie Gallagher
Merging the ability to conduct surveillance that reveals every aspect of a person's life with the ability to conjure up the legal authority to execute… — Ron Wyden
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… — Sibel Edmonds
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… — Lee Iacocca
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered… — Wendell Phillips
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
It should be obvious that this pattern of systematic holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration is not the result of accidents, editing oversights or technical… — John Negroponte
The most devastating indictment of the president's proposal is that it threatens to destroy virtually everything about American health care that's worth preserving. Under the… — William Kristol
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
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… — John Walford
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… — Patrick J. Kennedy
Food safety oversight is largely, but not exclusively, divided between two agencies, the FDA and the USDA. The USDA mostly oversees meat and poultry; the… — Marion Nestle

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