Quotes About Authority

Edgar Hoover? I'd rather have him inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in.

A police uniform, he was warned by the commander on his first day on parade, could change a person's personality, and not always for the better.

Ideas smack of rebellion and rebellions must be put

Bossy was the adjective most often trotted out by the lads whenever Sue's name came up in conversation (strange how women in positions of authority so often acquire the sobriquet bossy, while a man holding the same rank is somehow invested with qualities of leadership).

I am sure the House will agree that given these circumstances, my final judgment will require the wisdom of Solomon.

deal with all four of them in one masterful stroke. Sir Alan Redmayne believed in the rule of law. It was

But then it was Thomas More who reminded us that when you don these robes you must be willing to make decisions that will rarely please all men. And indeed, my lords, on three such occasions in the past, the Lord Chancellor, having delivered his judgment, was later that day beheaded.' The

Ideas smack of rebellion and rebellions must be put down.

make you up to a brigadier so you've got

Too frightened to set a precedent, but quite happy to pass the buck.

Giles entered the Privy Council office on Whitehall so he could avoid the scrum of Fleet Street hacks waiting for him in Downing Street, or at least those who didn't know about the back door en- trance to No.IO.

But passively waiting for your child to outgrow his defiant behavior will just make the problem worse and not solve it. It's our job as parents to help our children learn appropriate behavior, not to enable poor behavior by making excuses for it.

How a family reacts to a child's behavior and how a child is disciplined also play a big role in the development of defiant behaviors. The

Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Then they believe you exist.

On the wall of his living room Billy had painted the words 'Kill the Father.' Killing the father was what, in Billy's opinion, college was all about. Who's your father? he asked Madeleine. Is it Virginia Woolf? Is it Sontag? In my case, Madeleine said, my father really is my father. Then you have to kill him. Who's your father?

As soon as the cry reached my father, however, he marched into the kitchen to tell his mother that, this time at least, her spoon was wrong. "And how you know so much?" Desdemona asked him. To which he replied what many Americans of his generation would have: "It's science, Ma.

Commenting on the crew's Christmas Eve reading from Genesis, he looked down at the justices of the Supreme Court—a court barely seven years removed from having ruled prayer in the classroom unconstitutional—and said, "But now that I see the gentlemen in the front row, I'm not sure we should have read from the Bible at all.

Kraft—making his presence felt at NASA in much the same way he had at NACA—had established one of the most important of the space agency's growing list of flight rules: If you don't know what to do, don't do anything at all.

Condoleezza Rice is right: people will join your side if you have power and are willing to use it, not just because they are afraid of your hurting them but also because they want to be close to your power and success.

They could not make out the exact words coming from their captain's mouth, but it was fairly clear he wasn't reciting poetry.

Zeus's line may be powerful, but even Zeus was helpless against Eros. Unless you'd like me to take you into the men's room and fuck you till you scream for mercy, you'd better go tell Konstantin that this one is ours. Understand?

Even the best of children can be little tyrants, believing themselves absolutely entitled to every bit of the love and servitude bestowed upon them by the adults entrusted with their care

Lane and Zack got hitched. So while it might not be very punk rock to be too young to drink legally at your own wedding, it's certainly handy to have the thumbs up from God to get laid.

One of the biggest problems this country has is that people think a law is only a law if they agree with it. And if they don't, it's all right to kick guys like Joe out of the service and bomb abortion clinics because there's a higher law at work. And that's garbage, Allie. The law is the law. If you don't like it, change it. But don't break it and then start whining when there are consequences.