Quotes About Authority

Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors.

Authority doesn't have to be concentrated in me when I'm hiring outstanding professionals who know their jobs. I will be there if there's something that's not following what I want. But I also know that day to day, they're the ones that have to be accountable.

I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.

We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy.

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.

Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.

The faculty, from adjunct professors to deans, tell you what to do, what to say, and more ominously, what to think.

If a company is profitable, the founder is in control. If it's not, investors are in control.

Both offensively and defensively, the presence that I have is pretty profound.

Many programs are built on the government's spending power, and the existence of an extraconstitutional limit on that power is a worrisome development.

I generally leave the details of fiscal programs to the Administration and Congress. That's really their area of authority and responsibility, and I don't think it's appropriate for me to second guess.

Every country needs a strong leader in order to progress.

I know what hierarchy and discipline mean. Without those, we will never have order and progress.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

You think you can govern separate from our Constitution? That's the foundation of progressivism right there, folks.

Bad leaders believe that they have to project control at all times.

When you take a director off a project, that makes a person feel humiliated because everyone knows it. But we're responsible because we put them in that position.

For my senior prom, my father finally said I could go - as long as I was home by 9 P.M.! That was around the time that most people were heading out. When I was little I was so mad at them all the time. 'Why can't I do this?' 'Why are there so many rules?' But looking back now, my parents gave me the foundation to have so many choices in life.

I believe that writing on music is experienced inside your head, is not a physically present in the world, it has a different kind of authority and prominence and you absorb it differently.

Yes, I will promise you anything your little elector heart desires... Of course, I have no intention of keeping any promise I make.

I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.

As the manager, Ive told my players that if anyone is sin-binned for backchat to referees or officials, they will miss the next two games - with no promises that they will get back in the side.

Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration.