Quotes About Authority

One thing we know about government after the New Deal is that checks and balances through whistle-blowing is terrible policy.

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

I don't want to be the mayor of New Jersey.

In New Mexico... I may have vetoed more legislation as governor of New Mexico than all the other governors in the country combined.

The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.

If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.

We probably give newspaper columnists too much weight.

I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.

Americans have this patrician attitude that they have a God-given right to produce these boring newspapers and not be challenged to do it. 'The New York Times' really thinks it's the BBC.

I'm going to be the next king of the Earth.

I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.

It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative.

I know from my nightclub days that when local cops need to show a fall in crime for political reasons there are all sorts of ways in which they can easily cheat numbers.

Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?

I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk.

In Nine Inch Nails, I've been the guy calling the shots since inception. I'd gotten used to that.

We've got the NSA getting logs of every call you make. The IRS is weaponized like Richard Nixon could only have dreamed of.

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

No doubt it was better to have become president than not.

Anybody who believes Yelp is an idiot. Most people on Yelp have no idea what they're talking about.

I have no interest in the trappings of power.

There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.

Neither the SPLC, the liberal media, nor the Democratic Party has any authority on what constitutes 'hate.' They themselves are full of lies and hatred. They have no love.

As a mother, there are often times you wish your daughters would wear a few more clothes. Or at least different ones. But there's really no point in saying, 'You're not going out in that' because they'll do it anyway.