Quotes About Authority

You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

If you're a speech writer for a president, you don't really see all that much of him because there's so many layers between you and him. But with a vice president, it's different.

I've never been a vice president. Ever. Always chairman.

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

Government, as it was forced upon mankind by their vices, so has it commonly been the creature of their ignorance and mistake.

I wasn't expelled for anything vicious, just being cheeky, not doing what I was told, answering back, and always rising to the bait if someone said something annoying about my dad.

Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.

If you go into a police station and report a burglary the first question is not: 'Are you telling the truth?' If you are the victim of a sexual offence, very often in the past that has been the first question.

The BBC is a victim of its own independence.

It's clear that the laws intended to allow victims to have their cases heard - including our civil rights laws, our criminal laws and our civil justice laws - too often have the opposite effect. These laws are clearly rooted in a false assumption that those in power can do no wrong.

For centuries, the courts took the view that preserving the discretion of the authorities trumped the rights of victims to hold them to account. It was because of the Human Rights Act that this began to change.

Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.

The State Film Authority will be there for film as industry only, as is the case in all the other states, except Victoria. Victoria is moving more now into supporting non-commercial films.

I don't think Curcic is up to the task. I'd like to be more positive, but a coach who has not been in charge of a top team aiming for titles does not have the potential, the authority, or the knowledge to lead a national team to victories.

Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.

If democracy brings an undemocratic group to power, is that a victory for democracy?

My mother was one of the first women admitted to Vienna University and her word was law.

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.

I was very head-strong, and this was the Vietnam War era - You did not listen to your parents or other authority figures. You didn't share their values. No one did in my circle. It was OK to rebel.

Coming of age in the 1960s, I heard the word 'fascist' all the time. College presidents were fascists; Vietnam War supporters were fascists. Policemen who tangled with protesters were fascists - on and on.