Quotes About Authority

Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.

There are some lines in the sand you just do not cross. Undermining basic civil liberties by locking people up for long periods without charge is one of them.

A more accurate statement would be that I was the first person since Jedi who was permitted to stick a fork into the piecrust to see if there was still any steam underneath.

Directors have this mask of being in control and in charge, but underneath, I'm terrified.

'Because I said so!' They are the most underrated four words.

We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

The world doesn't understand the system here. The authority of the people. You don't understand it.

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

When residents elect a mayor, they expect the mayor to be able to solve their problems. They expect, when they go see the mayor, the mayor to be able to take care of things. But what they don't understand is that the mayor is not in charge.

The New Testament is of full authority and open to the understanding of simple men as to the points most needful to salvation.

I tend to agree with those who say that a justice's duty is to the Constitution and that it is thus more legitimate for her to enforce her best understanding of the Constitution rather than a precedent she thinks is clearly in conflict with it.

When I left NSA, it was with an understanding that you can never underestimate the power of large numbers of stupid people.

I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.

One of the things that I want to make sure everybody understands is that when you delegate the authority, you have to set the standard.

Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.

Dealing with LeBron is like a friendship. Coaching, but he understands that I am the boss, and I am going to call the shots, and he is fine with that.

The only leader America should ever have is someone who understands that the people are the government.

We're in a war with ISIS and we need a leader who understands exactly what that means.

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

For over 200 years after the adoption of the Second Amendment, it was uniformly understood as not placing any limit on either federal or state authority to enact gun control legislation.