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Quotes About Authorization

Anything you see on the screen was at one point approved by me.
~ Craig McCracken
After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act.
~ Jim Gerlach
Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize Bush to take the nation to war. Most of them did so in the belief that the president and his administration were truthful in their statements that Saddam Hussein was a gathering menace.
~ Bob Graham
If a pane of glass, or the door of a cupboard in the scullery, requires mending, it cannot now be done without the following process: a requisition is prepared and signed by the chief cook, it is then counter-signed by the clerk of the kitchen, then it is taken to the lord chamberlain's office, where it is authorized, and then laid before the clerk of the works, under the office of woods and forests; and consequently, many a window and cupboard have remained broken for months.
~ Adrian Tinniswood
Congress passed the deeply flawed Patriot Act and authorized the invasion of Iraq. It even gave its retroactive approval to warrantless wiretapping.
~ Andrew Rosenthal
All of these reissues were not authorized by me, I do not endorse them, the live album was put out without my permission, and I've not seen a dime at this point, either.
~ Jello Biafra
Getting permission to use a drone in Egypt was problematical.
~ Sarah Parcak
I do have a carry permit.
~ Chris Collins
Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme in Puerto Rico and residents do not have voting representation in the Congress.
~ Dick Thornburgh
Spaniards were condemned for appeasing terrorism by voting for withdrawing troops from Iraq in the absence of U.N. authorization - that is, for taking a stand rather like that of 70 percent of Americans, who called for the U.N. to take the leading role in Iraq.
~ Noam Chomsky
Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.
~ Barbara Lee
I once called construction companies to bid on an addition to the school library so that there would suddenly be people outside, measuring the building. 'Who authorized this?' the principal would ask. The answer: 'Howie Mandel.'
~ Howie Mandel
No axiom is more clearly established in law or in reason than wherever the end is required, the means are authorized; wherever a general power to do a thing is given, every particular power for doing it is included.
~ James Madison
to authorize that personally.
~ Douglas Preston
Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.
~ Norm Dicks
There's a lot of talk about FISA applications. Many people I've seen talk about it seem not to recognize that a FISA application is actually a warrant, just like a search warrant.
~ Rod Rosenstein
When Congress passed the Authorization for the Use of Military Force immediately after the 9/11 attacks, no one could have imagined this authorization would continue to be the basis for American wars that persist a decade and a half later.
~ Peter Bergen
No body of men can be said to authorize a man to act as their agent, to the injury of a third person.
~ Lysander Spooner
Did Indira Gandhi ask for somebody's permission to carry out the test in 1974?
~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee
I'm not authorizing anything that would require my authorization," said Hoffman. "Got that?" Rogers said yes. "If that's understood, then you have my authorization
~ David Ignatius
Many of the most important stories in the history of modern journalism have come from sources who have taken information without authorization.
~ Glenn Greenwald
Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
In the context of a national dialogue, perhaps the only authorization required for "putting in your little two cents worth" is the constitutional provision for free speech. Moreover, the basis for the presumptions of dissent and counter-statement is the same as for popping off: the merest hint or suspicion that outrage is being committed against one's conception of actuality.
~ Albert Murray
letters of marque;
~ Alexander Hamilton