Quotes About Prerogatives

Although victimism can trace its lineage to liberalism, it is not itself liberalism. Nor is it updated Christianity. It militates against ideas of equity, fairness, and process; its natural tone is one of assertion of prerogatives, a demand for reparations.

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

I have always believed that facilitating good, unusual content should be one of my prerogatives as someone who has spent half his life in cinema.

The Supreme Court of the United States is hereby commanded to try Andrew Johnson for usurpation of our Imperial authority and prerogatives, and if found guilty, behead him or send him here to black the Emperor's boots.

These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.

Lawmakers zealously guard their prerogatives, and as much as some might oppose a minimum-wage increase, they will not want to see the issue taken out of their hands.

God is jealous of His unique prerogatives. His purpose is authentication, not for us to indulge in divination.

But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God.

To recover his citizen's rights and acquire still more new, exclusive prerogatives that would render to Laurence's authority soul and body not just the wennies, but also the entire country, he lacked just one thing—a word. … This is the marvelous word: bandit.

There will certainly be times when Merkel and I will have opposing viewpoints. Just the fact that government work adheres to a different set of prerogatives than a party does makes conflicts unavoidable.

Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda.

I had great apprehension in locking lips with Namit on the screen. I come with my own prerogatives.

We must make a very precise distinction between the official and consequently dictatorial prerogatives of society organized as a state, and of the natural influence and action of the members of a non-official, non-artificial society.

All [government] can see in an original idea is potential change, and hence an invasion of its prerogatives. The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos.

The Constitution is the basic law of the nation that defines the duties and prerogatives of every official acting on behalf of the United States. Yet the interpretation of the Constitution by a judge has an authority and force that transcends that of the attorney general or any other official in the executive or legislative branch.