Quotes About Authority

Law and order is the first and topmost priority.

It's always about agency - that's the goal, always, to give agency to people. I think that's always got to be the priority.

I hated high school. It was a prison.

As an independent person, I find it difficult being dependent for everything, for even my food and medicine, to the prison authorities. I have had to fight through the courts for everything, including even physiotherapy, which is my right under the jail manual.

There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.

I do get stopped in the street, and people are always, without exception, really polite. I think it's because they think I can send them to prison.

I just don't think somebody that's been to prison is allowed to say what the standard is.

The prisoner never loves his warden, even if he obeys the rules from time to time.

In so many places in the world, women have been prisoners for so long that they feel they have to scream about their rights. But when you scream, nobody listens to you. Real authority comes when you no longer need to scream - and that's something we women still need to learn.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

I always felt that a governor surrenders a certain amount of privacy. And I came to accept that.

Control is what gives you privacy.

I do not believe the government has the right to investigate somebody's private life.

The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.

People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?

I've been around the block. And I have had the privilege of having been a senior Minister.

The privilege of holding the priesthood, which is the power and authority to act in God's name, is a great blessing and privilege and one that carries with it equally great obligations and responsibilities.

I have been privileged to work for some of the most high-powered people in town. They pay me for my opinions, and I give those to them.

I was privileged to serve as a judge.

I didn't even realize I was quite privileged. But I am. I got money. I've never been stopped by a police officer.

Being a boss has been one of the greatest privileges and challenges of my life.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

I am very pro law enforcement.

Sometimes what's recommended to the people is something different than what's recommended to the leaders, because I have been recommended to use hydroxychloroquine as a prophylaxis and the probability of this harming you is very low.