Quotes About Authority

A Congresswoman must look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, speak on any given subject with authority and most of all work like a dog.

Here's the problem, and here's what he's going to learn. I do not work for Donald Trump. Come the 20th, Donald Trump works for us. We're the boss.

He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity.

I think my best work is when I'm kind of in charge.

Work only can keep even kings respectable.

My job in my work is not to acquire power; it's to question power.

Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.

Italy, wants peace and quiet, work and calm. I will give these things with love if possible and with force if necessary.

When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.

Small unit democracy, I found early on, didn't work for me.

Manager' is a title, not a function. It's better to be one than not. Since you spend all day doing the job of the person above you, the higher up you are, the less you have to do.

Sometimes commercial galleries ask for particular work to sell, but I try not to be bossed around by them. I didn't become an artist to get bossed around.

I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.

I think soft power definitely can work. But, you know, it depends on who you're dealing with. Some people are so intent upon power and keeping power that it's very difficult to conduct soft power.

Wherever I sit is the head of the table.

The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a third world dictator and just put all these guys in jail.

God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.

The faculty know what they need to develop and they need to work with an administrator with the authority do get it done. To define everything in terms of these index numbers is ridiculous.

I'm bored, I'm the chairman of the board.

If I say things like I'm going to erase someone's Social Security number, we all know I clearly don't work at the Social Security office.

Wait. You work for me?" "I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up.

I had a problem with cops pulling me over all the time for speeding. When I was doing Hill Street Blues, the cops said how much they loved the show as they were writing me up; meanwhile my insurance went through the roof.

I've always maintained that if I didn't have the boot and was talking serious things on the street corner, it would be very easy to ignore me.