Oversight Quotes

According to the distributor, he believed it was just an oversight. But it`s the kind of oversight that is really something that can`t be tolerated.

It`s critical that we conduct our oversight in a manner that does not interfere with the life-and-death work being done.

The important thing is to get oversight in there fast, and make it highly visible.

That`s an issue we have asked ourselves in hindsight - to what degree did we need to have more oversight and be involved in the governance and decision making,

Clearly, we need to refine our oversight of repair stations -- specifically as they become more popular. The inspector general`s concern is perhaps maybe those actions aren`t as quick as they should be, but we are moving forward with due speed.

The discrepancy there is that alternative schools were previously exempted from the grading process. The district, in the year 2003-2004, exempted its alternative schools from the grading process. They failed to exempt the alternative schools that are charter schools. And it was just an oversight on the part of the district. All alternative schools in the district couldn`t possibly have received an F because they didn`t get graded in 2003-2004.

They`ve got some legitimate concerns. We will fix whatever they suggest that we fix. It`s pretty apparent that there needs to be better oversight.

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.

There is a higher level of federal oversight with the negotiation panel. There is a certain level of formality and clarity, and it gives us some reassurance.

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

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.

The unfettered use of the emergency room services without some kind of clinical protocol, or oversight would be a major step back,

We think there needs to be more oversight and accountability over the prescription drug industry and their pricing practices.

The fact that the president is now seeding the Supreme Court with people who have been handmaidens in his efforts to increase the power of the executive without any check or oversight whatsoever is very disturbing.

I was not asked to serve on one. I think it was an oversight by our president.

The fact that Congress wasn`t aware that the FBI has used some 30,000 national security letters over the past few years is an indication that not enough oversight has been done. The money-laundering sections of the Patriot Act require scores of businesses to track the transactions of their customers and report to the government. It`s an aspect of the Patriot Act that doesn`t get much attention, but it should. This has huge implications for people`s privacy.