Quotes About Authority

If you're going to steal a car, don't steal a mail vehicle. They don't mess around. I mean, have fun, steal all the cars you want, but don't steal a U.S. Mail vehicle.

I can tell jokes. I can talk to the audience. I can relax. I can change my songs whenever I want. I can change the tempos. I can change the mood, because I'm in charge.

Everybody wants power and control in their life.

If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs.

No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired.

The left don't get what they want without the government forcing people to do it is the bottom line.

I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'

He's the president. I'm the general. Unless I want to get impeached, I got to do what he says.

It can't eat him. I forbid it. (Artemis) She can do as she pleases. I taught her to waste not, want not. (Acheron)

Stop calling your akri your daddy. It makes my wings droop. (Xirena) My akri is my daddy. He said so and it is so, so your wings can droop all they want, 'cause it won't change anything! (Simi)

Sometimes you can't even find the director on a movie set. Sometimes you don't want to find the director on a movie set.

The position of power and having to make decisions that you don't necessarily want to make is always good conflict and good drama.

Unfortunately, there are people in America, there are people in politics, there are people in positions of authority, who want to forcibly unarm, and force in to helplessness, American citizens.

I wanted to direct when I was very young. I had no idea of cinema, of who's doing what. That was my first instinct: "Okay, I want to be the boss."

Almost always, executive orders are within an authority and always within the purview of Congress to change if they want to legislatively change it.

Most people want Jesus as a consultant rather than a King, and He does not come that way.

You're trying to get a comfort zone with the parents. You want the family to feel comfortable with me in charge of their son.

Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.

Leadership is getting people to do things that they don't want to do.

One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.

Is there any chance you'd overthrow the tyrannical Beast Lord and his psychotic consort?" "Yeah, I want a vacation." -Kate & Curran to Jim

I gave him my hard stare. "You're a control freak and I fight all authority. And you want us to mate?" A wicked spark lit his eyes. "Many, many times.

Conservatives are giving up on democracy because it's not efficient. They want an autocratic regime.

If there are rules, we're the ones making them. We can change them whenever we want to.