"It did not adequately put in place a set of checks and balances on risk-taking that had systemic consequences."

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

"I think we have learned from the experience of SARS and that we are better equipped to work together to ensure the traveling public of their safety given the checks and balances and the monitoring that have been put in place,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

But I think as time went on after the Rose Revolution, I think he wanted to perpetuate this kind of system in which there was really absence of checks and balances, no real opposition included in the political process very much sort of governing by committee of the inner circle, of loyal allies around the president.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01