Quotes About Authority

We've got to trust the politicians with these decisions.

Bishops and judges are some of the best politicians in the world. They know how to manipulate the political process.

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

I dont like Graham Poll. He thinks he is pretty special, and Im not quite sure why.

The role of a leader is to create a reality and not to be influenced by polls.

Obama's great asset has always been an ability to maintain his air of authority without being baritone about it. He can be boring, but he is never ridiculous or pompous.

Without wanting to sound pompous or clever it is down to me to make decisions on behalf of the side to give it the best chance of being successful.

I'm a football manager, a football coach; I can't be expected to pontificate on everything.

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

The Pope? How many divisions has he got?

I don't think I look like the pope's favorite Catholic - at least not under close scrutiny.

The pope dies, you get another pope.

Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.

I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.

The one and only time I met Pope Benedict XVI was when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.

I think that the Pope has trust in every bishop that is appointed.

Once you have somebody that is telling you, 'We are interpreting God for you,' it seems like you either agree or you don't. You either say, like Martin Luther, 'I'm going to have a direct relationship with the word of God,' or I'm going to go through a conduit of God on Earth,' which would be the Pope.

The Pope, I hope, can only be scared by God.

I would say that every pope has had people within his administration who have had difficulties one way or another with his administration.

You don't have to be popular with the players to be a good manager or coach.

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.