Quotes About Authority

Who makes decisions for families across America? Should it be a family with their doctor, or should it be some unelected bureaucrat in Washington?

We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing.

Bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., shouldn't know how to better educate my kids than I do.

Bureaucrats serve their own interests first.

Growing up in the '70s, if you were a girl or woman, a man could tell you what to do - if you were sitting on the bus: 'Get up,' 'Move,' whatever. You did what you were told.

I have to take responsibility for anything that happened within its businesses.

Big Brother is watching... look busy.

Of all the numerous forms that governments have taken over the centuries, of all the concepts and institutions that have been tried, none has succeeded in keeping the State in check. The problem of the State is evidently as far from solution as ever.

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.

There are really only a handful of directors who have a final cut clause in Hollywood. You only get that power if you've made a couple of hundred-million-dollar successes.

The president is in charge of the military so that a single individual - accountable to Americans - is responsible for its successes and failures.

You can't do anything successfully in life without leadership.

I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only.

You know, in Saudi Arabia, there is a body of 40 people - 34 people exactly, that once the succession comes, they will meet and they will elect a king in there.

I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.

In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor.

I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.

Who my successor is will be up to the board, not me.

The Lord specifically told me that He has appointed and anointed Daniel Kolenda as my successor.

Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's need to think.

One of the greatest struggles of bureaucracies is they get built and created, but they design themselves in such a way that they can never be at fault. They can never be wrong, they can never have made a mistake and they never want to relent.

Bouncers suck.

Some things never change, suck up to the government and you get an honour.