Quotes About Authority

I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment.

I resent Washington telling states, or the residents of those states, what to do and what to think.

Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.

Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.

If 'extreme' means that I am unwilling to go to Washington, D.C., and do what President Obama tells me, then so be it. But I am certainly not going to Washington, D.C. to represent the interests of D.C. I'm going there to represent Colorado values.

I can't get very excited about the House of Commons these days because I don't feel the power is there. What is really bizarre is that you sense it is not in Washington either. It is now very hard even to locate the levers of power, let alone to pull them and change things.

If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.

We never waste space saying, 'On the one hand.' We just state an opinion in a Godlike voice.

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

My mom was very strict. She didn't let me watch anything rated R or anything with cussing.

I'm not guided by what Human Rights Watch says.

Now I've literally become neighborhood watch. I call 911 on people. I'm the old man driving 25-miles-per-hour down Sunset.

We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio.

Mass protests often get books or films banned, but very few people take to the streets to challenge the right of the State to decide what we can read or watch - it's still someone else's problem.

I have watched people around members of the royal family for a long time now, and something very strange happens to them. They turn into sycophants.

Protestantism has actually put a man in the position of a country governed by secret police. The spy and eavesdropper, 'conscience,' watches over every motion of the mind, and all thought and action is for it a 'matter of conscience,' i.e. police business.

I can't be the only one who watches 'Footloose' and hopes that John Lithgow will stop Kevin Bacon ever dancing again.

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.

The founding leaders of our country believed in a three-part sharing of governmental power, with each branch jealously watching the actions of the other two.

In the Soviet Union, you always have the feeling someone is watching you.

To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.

I grew up a child of Watergate. It gave me a good dose of skepticism about authority. One of my favorite movies is 'All the President's Men.' Woodward and Bernstein, those guys were my heroes. I have a degree in journalism.

The EPA has no legal authority to expand the definition of navigable waters under the Clean Water Act, as the Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear.