Quotes About Authority

It has never been the case that a peerage can be extinguished, even for the lifetime of a peer, by a motion of the Lords. This does not mean that there are not effective ways of penalising errant peers.

A president with a pen in their hand is a very powerful person.

As bad as the Obama administration is at trying to legislate without legislators, all too often, Congress is responsible for handing them the 'pen and phone.'

When you're given a certain amount of power - like, you're a writer and an employed writer, and you put pen to paper, and people are going to read what you write - that's power.

I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside.

The Pentagon isn't a place that champions individuality and innovation.

This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

I'm 100 per cent involved in everything that happens with my name, and I think if you're not, then there's something wrong.

If you think someone committed a crime, you should turn them in to whomever you perceive authority to be.

Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.

There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.

In Mexico, the perception of power is power.

The Brits are perfectly capable of managing the Brits and don't need Brussels telling them how to manage things.

When you think about a drill sergeant, a drill sergeant expects you to perform your best, and if you don't, they're going to stay on you until you do.

Performance art is really more of a command than an invitation.

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.

I'm of the opinion that one of the perks of being in Parliament is not having to do the school run.

The office of presbyters is a permanent one.

The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.

The permanent power brokers of this city are the columnists.