Quotes About Authority

Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

Those amateur umpires are certainly flexing their fangs tonight.

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

I want to make a picture about the Russian secret police - the GOP.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

I'm the decider, and I decide what is best.

Shut up, Julius! I mean, quiet a moment, Commander.

Manners, boy. I'll beat them into you if I have to.

I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.

Girl who sit on Judge's lap get honorable discharge.

East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory.

Kicking a police car? Really?' Caleb shrugged. 'Car offended me. It was sitting right where I wanted to stand. What would you do?

If the cops didn't see it, I didn't do it!

A real cop fights real crime. A vice cop's only job is to ruin the party.

It should not be an act of social disobedience to light a cigarette. Unless you're actually a doctor working at an incubator.

Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in First." I have never had so much respect for Mama as the day I heard this.

It's harder to be funny from the position of power.

From now on, we're home schooling you. Whatever we don't know, you don't know. When did the Korean War start? I don't know, and neither do you!

My son is 21. He'll be 22 if I let him.