Quotes About Authority

In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

The fundamental question of politics has always been whether there should be politics.

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

There is a lack of leadership outside the Beltway, outside of politics.

Tikka Khan won't try to stick his nose in politics.

I think the presidency is much too serious a thing to just play politics with.

In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.

Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.

REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.

Hell is full of high court judges.

Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

Only two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics

I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President.

The Pope doesn't get mixed up in Italian politics.

God has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell.

The emperor would prefer the poet to keep away from politics, the emperor's domain, so that he can manage things the way he likes.

He loves power. He loves control because others, you know, dad and stuff like that, but he's just a great guy. He's just a great guy.

It is from the center that leaders must lead.

It's generally not wise to pick a fight with law enforcement in politics, especially when you're in the middle of a pretty significant scandal already.

We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.

Politics is about the control of a limited number of resources by a limited number of people who think that number is too many

By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.