Quotes About Authority

My job as a coach is to make good decisions. It's not to go out there and block or tackle.

I don't know if everybody is ready to hear a woman tell them so-and-so is going to run off left tackle. But you know what? They're going to hear it.

Governments need to be authorized to provide 'open bank assistance.' The convolutions of Dodd-Frank aimed at 'avoiding' this tactic are ludicrous and will prove to be extremely costly to the system.

I remember that, often, Mike Phelan would just nip down to the touchline for a message to one or two players. It was usually just a tactical thing. But when Sir Alex comes to the touchline, all the players know that it's serious stuff.

Some of the tactics that are used by Foxconn and other companies throughout China is, if you are late, if you violate one of the small rules, some of the punishment is that you have to copy down quotations from the chairman of Foxconn: you have to write out confessions explaining why you were late and promising never to do it again.

The captain tag is something that every head coach in this league takes seriously.

The president is here, strong and firm as a monkey's tail.

Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of an injury to the tail could take nearly a minute to be communicated to the sauropod brain.

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

The way to have power is to take it.

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

I could never take orders from anyone.

I don't like people who take drugs... customs men for example.

When placed in command, take charge.

A man in a position of power over me used that said power to try and take advantage of me.

Yes, I'm your governor now. I'll take care of you.

I don't listen to anybody. You need my help: Come to me, shut up, forget who you are. I will take care of you. And I do my job.

When you have a good director, everything is taken care of.

If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers to stand over him, compel him to submit to its arbitrary will, and kill him if he resists.

To take over a government through military force would create instability, and it would not last for long. I do not want to leave a legacy of having taken over the government through military means. It has never occurred to me to have a coup d'etat.

The king, you say, desires to do what is right. My clergy are banished, my possessions are taken from me, the sword hangs over my neck. Do you call this right?

It is impossible to be taken seriously in shorts. No one has ever cared about anything said by a man in shorts.

I will say this: in a state of emergency operations decisions are taken by the commissioner. It's not for politicians to interfere.

There's something called, 'resolution authority,' which gives the government the power to takeover a failing bank - something they didn't have pre-Lehman Brothers.