Oversight Quotes - Page 4

• The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture. In a church all the members are active. He [God] appointed some to take oversight of the work so that it might be carried on efficiently. It was never His thought that the majority of the believers should devote themselves exclusively to secular affairs and leave church matters to a group of spiritual specialists.

  Watchman Nee

  Spiritual, Church, Majority

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• JP Morgan always has higher capital liquidity, that is partially to make up for mistakes and problems and obviously its 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

  Mistake, Support, Tough

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• 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

  Country, Men, Accountability

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• 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

  Thinking, Expression, Way

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• 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

  Military, Want, Incredibles

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• 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

  Home, Needs, Levels

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• 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

  Disappointment, Errors, Might

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• 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

  Different, Working It, Models

  "Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor". Book by Tren Griffin, September 15, 2015.

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• The financial collapse of 2008 got its start with predatory mortgages, that weren’t sold by community banks and credit unions, they were sold by fly by night mortgage brokers who had almost zero federal oversight and then the big banks looked over, saw the profit potential and they wanted it bad. So they jumped in and sold millions of these terrible mortgages while the bank regulators just looked the other way.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Zero, Night, Community

  "Elizabeth Warren: Our Populist Agenda — In Her Own Words" by Roger Hickey, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2015.

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• The global financial crisis is a great opportunity to showcase and propagate both causal and moral institutional analysis. The crisis shows major flaws in the way the US financial system is regulated and, more importantly, in our political system, which is essentially a bazaar of legalized bribery where financial institutions can buy themselves the governmental regulations they want, along with the regulators who routinely receive lucrative jobs in the industry whose oversight had formerly been their responsibility, the so-called revolving-door practice.

  Thomas Pogge

  Jobs, Responsibility, Opportunity

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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