Quotes About Authority

There are umpires, and there are those who hold the title.

The integrity of the game is the umpires. Nobody else. The entire integrity of the game is the umpires.

I'm never going to criticize any umpires or anything, because they're a big part of the game.

The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.

The one thing that all umpires have is pride, and if you don't have pride, you lose that edge.

Umpires sometimes have a quick trigger.

It's very un-American to say nice things about elites. Elites are often terrible. It's not like we've ever had a perfect set of benevolent democratic elites ruling over our country. But the fact of the matter is that a representative system of democracy delegates power to elites.

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise.

The Obama administration is on notice - they will not be allowed to regulate what they have been unable to legislate.

France's Charles VI was subject to fits of insanity and unable to rule.

Who are the governing bodies to say what is a good and a bad behaviour? I think that's unacceptable, even from an ethical point of view. I don't think anyone on this planet should be able to point at people and say this. For example, if it's not dangerous for other people, you should be allowed to break a racket. It's my racket, it's my problem.

What drives me crazy is when you have a supervisor in government, and they report into 12 other supervisors. That's unacceptable.

There is no, and cannot be, any situation in which we don't respect the law and the judiciary. It is unacceptable to attack the courts; criticism is allowed, but attacks are not. It shakes the basis of our democracy.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

Instead of exporting what they perceived to be rational, modern, humane government to their colonies, the British often found themselves propping up deeply unattractive and corrupt princelings and client rulers because this was the cheapest way of maintaining control.

We have this extraordinarily unbalanced constitution, in which we have an elected dictatorship of the prime minister.

I've found that any time you go against the people's voice you're going up against a tsunami that will have unbelievable power and implications.

President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful man on earth is yelling, 'I know you're there, pick up, pick up.

God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.

Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.

The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war...

War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.

It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.