Inadequate Oversight Quotes

The Republicans are running wild with our tax dollars and it's been a mistake to let this administration continue a policy of incompetence when it comes to Iraq.

Business people get many undeserved prizes - golden parachutes and bonuses even when companies fail. I don't think people should get rewarded for screwing up.

We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.

Nobody who comes in once every six weeks while you're working 80 or 90 hours a week is qualified to make a decision.

This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.

I don’t see how the Justice Department thinks they have a system that works when 50 percent of the [appeals] cases get sent back for fixing…. How does that happen? How in God’s name does that happen? Here in America. How many more cases of wrongful conviction before we can agree that the system … is broken.

If you put too much aid too quickly into weak institutions, you have corruption and failure.

The Chinese banking system is built on quicksand and that's the one thing a lot of people don't realize. Everybody seems to think it is a free and clear open checkbook. It's not. The banking system in China is extremely fragile.

Standards in public life have decayed over time... Incompetence is the norm.

The real technical problems came because people working on the project didn't really follow my proposal at all, but set out to do other things instead of making a laser.

What compelled me about the story of Chernobyl more than anything else was something very universal. Yes, Chernobyl happened because in many ways, the Soviet system was deeply corrupt and evil, but the Soviet system did not arrive to us from some other planet. It was devised by humans.

Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed.

To say that past managements of Citigroup were poor would be a kindness.

And each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.

As well-intentioned as it might be, the Ali Act suffers from glaring flaws.

Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.

To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.

Previous governments, particularly the one before I took over, mismanaged the economy quite badly.

It is equally demonstrable that so far as Texas is concerned, there have been equal confusion, insecurity and injustice in the administration of the State governments.