Quotes About Authority

Our police officers are on the front line of a battle to maintain control of our streets.

I see myself as the godfather of the streets.

If Congress grants permission, I would put armed forces in the streets.

Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.

We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

I don't think I know enough about acting to direct. You need to be a slight megalomaniac, not where you want to take over the world, but where you want to make every single decision and the buck stops with you. It's an awful lot of stress.

I tend to have this perverse reaction to authority and stress: I become more confident and clear when a challenge is enormous.

Trump abuses every privilege in the same way. It's kind of like King George. Take a legal concept and then stretch it beyond all recognition, and that's what you have Trump doing.

You can't have some phantom guy that's got all the authority, that's booking all the matches. It takes that stretch of believability and it goes way, way, way too far.

I am a very strict mother, and as a mother, it's my responsibility to guide my kids and tell them to go how far and no further. There should be rules and guidelines for the kids, and they should know their limits.

My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. He kind of laid down the law.

I was raised by a very strict, good mother, so I won't be getting out of line anytime soon.

And in real life, I'm actually quite authoritative and strict.

My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.

I'm not a yeller. But I am strict.

My dad was a strict Muslim. He had a lot of rules.

I don't know if I'm a strict parent or a pushover.

As I grew up, Dad was more involved in training than promoting. He brought the same style to his training that he did to being a father - strong and strict.

In being strict, you were able to control.