Mungo Wentworth MacCallum Quotes

Oversight now is defined as going after political appointees.

Many Senators are scared to death that the people back home are going to find out what they’ve been doing in Washington.

Washington concentrates on the ends of government and not the means. But the people are so disgusted by the means, that that is what they now are worried about.

In Washington's highly politicized world, the greatest risk is not that a program will perform poorly, but that a scandal will erupt. Scandals are front page news, while routine failure is ignored.

Scandals never stop an administration unless the media wants them to stop an administration, which means that no scandal is ever gonna stop Obama.

I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems.

I don't know that we do. I had thought ours worked well, but I had never examined it too closely. A lot of media people will be looking for a case that might make Texas Governor George Bush think twice about what he's doing.

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

The days of the Pentagon Papers debates seem long past, when a sudden transparency yielded insight into fights over war and peace and freedom and security; the transparency afforded by Twitter and Facebook yields insights that extend no further than a lawmaker's boundless narcissism and a culture's pitiless prurience.

When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.

If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page.

Since the time of Richard Nixon, there has been a strange lack of will in the media to identify the real cause for Americans' anger at politicians who fall, publicly and spectacularly.

Any man familiar with public life realizes the foul gossip which ripples just under the surface about almost every public man, and especially about every President

State and local government are more corrupt and less efficient than the federal government.

Theodore Roosevelt ... had become uneasy at the effect on the public of the periodical press's increasing criticisms and investigations of business and political abuses

Had the investigation been left to the government, the current administration would have concealed its own mistakes and blamed its predecessors, That is not a criticism of the Bush White House. Any administration would do the same.

Let us give our Republic not the best possible laws but the best which they will bear.

He [previous President Uribe] has criticized this government for unveiling a lot of corruption: he thinks it is an attack on his government. But I have said no, it is not an attack on his government, it is an attack on the corrupt people, and I will continue to do that.

How much we all suffer from lack of oversight from the government.

That's what representative democracy is about, is members going to Washington but coming home and answering the tough questions.

You live by the media, you live by the polls, you've got to suffer by the polls, too.

Unfortunately for the American people, the Obama-Clinton-Rice cabal that led to the Benghazi cover-up was far more interested in political-damage control than serious damage assessment.

I don't agree that the Somnath Bharti incident has been an embarrassment.

The reality is I believe there has never been in the history of our White House such an unscrupulous pair as what I witnessed in this White House.

What typically happens in government is the exact opposite of how things should work.