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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. -- Vince Cable
I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services. -- Imran Khan
Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status. -- Northrop Frye
I always do a mental audit at the end of the week to make sure I'm balancing time between my career and my personal life. -- Jill Wagner
Organizations worried about the potential for e-voting problems have long-advocated for audit procedures by which votes cast by e-voting machines could be verified through audit trails. -- Bob Barr
Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) has called for an audit of the Pentagon, so that we finally have some transparency and accountability in how DOD spends taxpayer dollars. -- Pete Hegseth
I've always been a relatively big history buff. In college, I took a lot of history courses, and when I was in grad school, I liked to audit them. -- Scott Snyder
I think women think a lot about cycles, biological and personal. This year another cycle came around: my contract was up. It seemed an opportunity to take a life audit. -- Jane Pauley
Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people. -- John Poindexter
Most philanthropists want to be effective altruists. But the problem isn't intention: it's measurement. Unlike financial investing, which has reporting standards, audit processes, and educational requirements, social investing is notoriously tricky to evaluate. -- Leila Janah
The details of what the Fed did were kept secret until a provision in the Dodd-Frank Act that I sponsored required the Government Accountability Office to audit the Fed's lending programs during the financial crisis. -- Bernie Sanders
The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents. -- Barton Gellman
Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP. -- Polly Toynbee
I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically be a black swan event that is completely unlike whatever you've experienced before. It even happens to Google! -- Matt Mullenweg
The Pentagon can't even audit its own books. It doesn't even know where its money is going. And we refuse to have the tough forces go on the Pentagon so that at least they are efficient with the money they're spending. -- Tom Coburn
I was an accidental banker. To please my parents, I went for an interview with Chase Manhattan Bank in 1983. They promised to send me into their offices in more than 40 countries and essentially audit the practices. It was an extraordinary job. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
The DoD has never undergone an audit. In 2004, it actually pledged to undergo a full audit by 2007, but that deadline came and went, and then they moved it to 2016. No one, not even the DoD, thinks they'll actually be able to pass it in 2016. -- Nick Turse
Defense leaders should be searching for ways to reform out-of-date procurement processes, to collapse layers of Pentagon bureaucracy, and to restrain the growth in personnel and benefits costs. A critical first step in that process should be to conduct a full Pentagon audit to determine how DOD spends taxpayer dollars. -- Pete Hegseth
The reason it takes us from November the second to December the sixth to certify is because we have a very tedious, very comprehensive process where we audit by precinct, across the state, every vote that was cast to make sure that every vote that was legally cast is counted. -- Kenneth Blackwell
It's absolutely critical that we audit the Fed so the American people can see what's going on over there. Do it from top to bottom so that we can have transparency in this entity called the Federal Reserve. Hopefully, the American people will see that we need to go back to the gold standard, which I've introduced, and get rid of the Fed. -- Paul Broun
I've been under audit almost for 15 years. -- Donald Trump
As soon as the audit's finished, it will be released. -- Donald Trump
Richard Nixon released tax returns when he was under audit. -- Tim Kaine
Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now. -- Regina Brett
I don't mind releasing - I'm under a routine audit. And it'll be released. -- Donald Trump
Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit? -- Erica Jong
We know the IRS has made clear there is no prohibition on releasing it when you're under audit. -- Hillary Clinton
I assume I can give you a letter from a big law firm saying that we're under audit. -- Donald Trump
The agency that is so strict on the way Americans keep their books cannot even pass a financial audit. -- Theodore Stevens
The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn't understand. And it ended in tragedy. -- Jeff MacNelly
Conducting a creativity audit can be very illuminating because it can tell you how the process is working internally and against the competition. -- John Kao
I always do a mental audit at the end of the week to make sure Im balancing time between my career and my personal life. -- Jill Wagner
I will absolutely give my [tax] return, but I'm being audited now for two or three years, so I can't do it until the audit is finished, obviously. -- Donald Trump
I think it would be interesting to know about the Federal Reserve. I think we should audit the Federal Reserve. It's taxpayers money that is being used there -- Harry Reid
I want a strong military. But I do not believe, among other things, that without an audit, we should be throwing tens of billions of dollars more into the Department of Defense. -- Hillary Clinton
Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit. -- Annie E. Clark
The mortal experience . . . is not like a college course which we can passively audit. Instead, we are taking life's course for credit and there are no summers off - not even semester breaks. -- Neal A. Maxwell

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