Quotes About Authority

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.

I never had a political power base.

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

Judges are appointed often through the political process.

Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.

We have seen a degradation from the highest levels of authority politically in this nation, including through the department of justice, for the rule of law.

I'm not your average politician. I believe in higher forces.

It must be a judge - never a politician - who decides whether someone is to be locked up.

To a British politician, a police officer is as invisible as the railings.

A businessman can be as military as any politician.

Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years.

I don't think I have the demeanor to be a politician. I'm used to making decisions and to a certain extent being in charge.

I have so much respect for policy makers and diplomats, but I could never be a politician because of the way they dress!

No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.

If a politician is a successful administrator, certainly he has got every right to administer cricket.

Do I trust Yasser Arafat? Of course not. Why should I? Why should anyone trust a politician, whether Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Benjamin Netanyahu, George W. Bush, or Yasser Arafat?

No politician wants to be challenged. They all say they want to be, but we all want to be anointed.

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

The bureaucracy always goes with the way politicians go.

One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.

My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.