Quotes About Authority

There should be no effort, consciously or otherwise, that will lead to the erosion of institutional credibility and authority.

I'm not quite that difficult, even though maybe I'm a little bit bossy. But you know, in order to get things done, you do have to be a little bit bossy sometimes or tell people what you really want. Otherwise, things just don't get done, do they?

If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.

It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.

If Ottawa giveth, then Ottawa can taketh away.

'The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales.

The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.

People ought to have more control over their lives.

We ought not to forget that the government, through all its departments, judicial as well as others, is administered by delegated and responsible agents; and that the power which really controls, ultimately, all the movements, is not in the agents, but those who elect or appoint them.

We have never been colonized, because of our attitude... We have the confidence, the moral authority, and our people are also enough to tell us what they want to tell us.

That's the fun part of being CEO. You can actually say, 'Hey, this is what we should be spending our time on,' and people get it.

We have long suspected that the faceless organisations that run our world - be it the church, multinational conglomerates or the government - keep things from us.

It was not the president's responsibility to run a law enforcement operation. It was ours.

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him.

The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.

It's not up to one individual to decide, 'I'm going to dictate the outcome of what's going to happen legislatively.' That is not a democracy; it's an atrocity.

Love or hate the outcome of what Trump has decided to do, keeping or scrapping DACA is outside of his authority as president. The executive branch enforces the law; it does not make it.

My outlook was, 'You're not my moms; you can't tell me what to do.' I got expelled from about 20 schools.

In the old days, people would pick up the phone and complain or they'd write a letter. But now they go to Ofcom and they must be sick to death of all of this. Any minor outrage that anyone's got, they go to Ofcom. They must be inundated with minor complaints.

Nuno is an outstanding coach, and he is also a leader.

The president and I sat down in the Oval Office, and he expressed very clearly that what he wants from me is my best professional military advice.

What comes into the Oval Office are not the good or easy decisions. The easy decisions are made elsewhere. The things that make it to the Oval are always the hard ones.

National security looks different from the Oval Office than it does from a hotel room in Iowa.