Quotes About Authority

The model a lot of companies use is a very pyramidal model which sort of designates that all creativity, all wisdom flows from the top. We think that's the absolute wrong model.

When they said, 'Why is Floyd Mayweather not fighting Manny Pacquiao?' it was because Manny Pacquiao had a boss. I don't have a boss.

All my career I've been like a leader, and a lot of people followed what I did.

BJP is a no-nonsense party and once the high command gives directions, it is followed through.

I am a rule follower. I think rules are there for a reason. I don't like breaking them.

If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.

Jesus was a perfect example of following authority. He was subject to His earthly parents; he subjected himself to the laws of the land, and as God, he had the power not to do any of it.

If you've been on top of the food chain in the Armed Forces, that's who you are. You're used to dealing with your life in a particular way.

Because I am the football coach doesn't mean I can dictate to people what they believe.

Having the ball makes you a football player, not running after it.

When I was 15, I used to pick the school football team.

It's a question of whether or not we the people are still in charge. And by 'we the people,' I mean, is this truly a government of and by and for the people.

This democracy is not by the people, of the people, for the people. This democracy is about by the party high command, of the party high command, and for the party high command.

Sometimes we don't realize that the government is for the people by the people.

As long as I am forbidden to see the MSPAP, my children will be forbidden to take the MSPAP.

Law, without force, is impotent.

If they're acting like a dog, sometimes you're forced to treat people like dogs.

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It's not like Egypt, where you're going to get murdered by the security forces.

Lawyers don't run sales forces.

I've been in situations, when I was younger, when I had people forcing me doing stuff that they don't want to do.

How does a woman in authority convey that authority? Is it possible for a woman to rule without sounding shrill? Is it possible for a woman to manage without manipulating? All of these things seem to me to be very much at the fore today, and were no less the case 2,000 years ago.

If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.

I am the foremost expert on what Cory Stewart believes.

Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.