Quotes About Authority

I'm the only person that has ever run a principle-based legislative body.

I'm a legislator, but it's hard to legislate when my party's out of power.

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

Even in non-democratic countries, people have a legitimate interest in knowing about actions taken by the government.

Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.

I think the greatest lesson that power has to teach us is, once you've had it, once you are a part of it, you're never free.

How could somebody be comfortable with authorizing legally the use of lethal force? My view is if you become comfortable with it, then you should get out of the job.

I don't just write letters. I write laws.

There can be no liberty without the law.

But on the other hand government takes away a certain amount of liberty and in some countries it takes away all of liberty. And it will, everywhere, if people who fight government do not fight government any longer.

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

We don't really like rules. We think, in some way, they are an infringement of liberty.

Everything that the FAA (the Federal Aviation Administration) has, I've got the license for.

I don't have a license, but I do drive.

I don't need a driver's license, my Uber driver needs a driver's license.

When the very people that you been taught to believe in - the police, the D.A., these are the people that are supposed to stand for justice - and when you know that they lied to you, it's hard for you to have trust in anybody.

I've always been a guy that liked to stay in control of my own destiny.

I'm not a person who likes authority. I just love the fact that it's up to me, and I go straight to the audience.

The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing for 11 years as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to be told what to do.

Limited government is best.

Power has no limits.

I don't see myself as a leader, I just feel that everything I say, people are listening and people are doing.

When you're doing a film, people are always telling you exactly what to do. Literally, your own decisions are taken away from you.

As a little kid, you go where your parents drag you. You have no agency, no dominion.