Quotes About Authority

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.

The federal government does not have the authority to tell landowners and ranchers and farmers that they can't farm and ranch their land because someday an endangered species might live there.

God operates the world by covenants. Those covenants have specific jurisdictions and responsibilities, not to be infringed upon by another covenant.

Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.

I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it's not censorship.

An entertainment property - specifically, a wrestling property - you have to have a decision maker. You have to have somebody who sits on top, that is guiding the ship, that makes the decisions.

Even though I was 27 when I left, I still was largely treated like a child, because I wasn't married. My parents, my mother specifically, knew where I was and what I was doing at all times.

The Spectator' has to be managed and people have to report. We all have bosses in this world and that's true of 'The Spectator' too.

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech.

I have a doctorate in fine arts from Knox College in Illinois. All I did was give a speech, and now everybody has to call me Dr. Colbert.

On the speech day, the production designer, who has a lot of say in things, and sometimes I didn't agree with him but I had to do what I was told, wanted the speech day to be all in neutral colours for the women, which was a good thing.

If you're in Congress, you vote and give speeches. But governors have to make decisions every day, and presidents have to make decisions every day.

The speed of decision making is the essence of good governance.

Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65.

Let's say you are driving in the U.K., and you are pulled over by the police for speeding, and you try to bribe the police officer with £300 to walk away. I guarantee you that at least 99 times out of 100 you are going end up in handcuffs, and you will be charged with the crime of trying to bribe a police officer.

Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries eventually reflect popular choices. And the Internet is allowing more people to influence spelling than ever before.

There were certainly no spells at my school. More like a smack in the mouth.

There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth.

The President sends us a billion-page paper that shows how he would spend the money if he were spending the money. He doesn't have the authority to spend the money. He doesn't spend $1 of the money.

Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?

I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do.

Inside the noisy and chaotic modern information sphere, the message doesn't matter nearly as much as the messenger.