Quotes About Control

I wanted total control and leadership. I wanted to buy the horses and choose the players.

When my children were young, I was very cocky. I thought I could maintain total control.

Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control.

I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front.

The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.

George Pal had total control, and he was there on the set every day. You never met a more charming man in your entire lifetime - what a lovely gentleman.

Owners, the way they blackballed me from baseball, the way they used me, in a sense, and then the way they wanted to send a signal to the other players, saying, you know, we're going to get Jose Canseco out of the game. This is a cue or a message for you other guys to stop using steroids because the owners lost total control of the steroid use.

What the government wants is something they never had before. They want total awareness. The question is, is that something we should be allowing?

American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster.

One could argue the GOP made no progress on limiting government in their four years of total control from 2002 to 2006. If anything, government expanded like never before.

I love music because you can create a world through your records. I have total control over what I do and what I wear. It's like my own world out of my imagination rather than someone giving me lines.

Honestly, I always told my coaches my whole career - we'll practice two-minute drills in practice, like, once a week and everything - I'm just like, 'Those are my favorite time of football.' I'm out there in total control, just getting everything lined up, getting everybody on the same page, and obviously, usually it's pass after pass after pass.

I'm not a team player. I'm used to having total control over everything I do.

There is a distinction between total control and enjoying total freedom.

Spielberg, like many others, wants to convince before he discusses. In that, there is something very totalitarian.

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.

For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime.

The Fed has become an accomplice in the support of totalitarian regimes throughout the world.

Democracy is like a totalitarian.

When totalitarian regimes are established, they at least have the illusion of the single-minded purpose. But once they establish the stature that's necessary for a totalitarian regime, they tend to flail.

A totalitarian power is mainly busy in keeping itself alive.

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.