Quotes About Authority

The issues that cross a president's desk are never easy. The easy questions don't even get to the president.

The biggest boss has the clearest desk.

People are always trying to be on top. And not always with a macabre agenda, but I think that people are desperately trying to remain in control, rather than being honest.

Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child.

I haven't come from a background where I've had it imbued in me from an early age that I'm destined to lead or to rule.

I never had a boss in my whole life. I've totally destroyed anybody's ability to tell me what to do.

Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty.

My nana was a detective; my nana was a great cop. You also have bad cops that were bullied in school or whatever and think that they have power, and that makes other cops look bad.

I was in detention a lot.

I wasn't a very well-behaved girl. I was often in detention for impertinence.

The devil I know is the establishment, and I'm gonna beat that devil.

Just because I've played this character doesn't mean I have any understanding of what Diana was like, at all. Although I'd want to say she was incredible, I understand I also have no authority to say that.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media.

You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

I am not a dictator; I am a communicator.

I'm a benevolent dictator.

I think people believe I'm some kind of evil dictator sometimes. But I don't much care about that.

I never like to conduct, quite honestly, because you have to be a bit of a dictator and it's exhausting.

Corporations are the new dictators.

Dictators are interesting, no?

I'm not a dictator. Dictators are people who take power and don't know when they're leaving. I know my mandate ends on Feb. 7, 2022.