Quotes About Authority

If I had a motto, it would be, 'Believe in God, fear the church'.

I do see your point, but to me, I'm just a mouse compared to the President of the United States.

The establishment is a dirty, dangerous beast, and the BBC is a mouthpiece for that.

In our administration, we're going to follow the law, and any policy that we move forward will fall well within the law and the Arizona Constitution.

I'm not in charge of making moves, you know. I'm in charge of coaching.

A limited government is much more likely to be a competent government.

Historically, Congress hasn't paid much attention to the confines the Constitution establishes.

I made all my generals out of mud.

Multiculturalism isn't about culture, it's about power.

My father made sure of discipline, but my mum, she was serious business.

Even me mum can't tell me what to do.

My poor mum had a lot of problems with me around that time. I was young but I'd been working for years, so if she asked me to clean my room I'd say, 'You can't tell me what to do after I've worked a 12-hour day.' It gave me a power that no one that age should have.

Musicians always respected me because they knew I'm a huge music lover and I know what I'm talking about.

When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba.

Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.

I think that Hassan Nasrallah is the best leader in the Muslim world.

Paradoxically, by insisting on engaging with Muslims as a separate group, the authorities make many of them feel even more excluded.

The king must die so that the country can live.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.

I am the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his children.

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

The only person I look up to - and not just in show business but also in the world - is a little lady named Judge Judy! Honestly.

I don't know how it works with the Jews, but here in Beit Safafa, as in every self-respecting Arab community that is respected in turn by the state, there are no street names and no house numbers.