Quotes About Authority

Remember that free speech is about the government can't infringe on your free-speech right. It says nothing about an employer - and what they can do to your free speech right. You've got the right to say it. But if you're working for somebody, they have the right to do whatever they want as well.

In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

Whether you empower one person or the free world, that is leadership.

Who wouldn't want to play the leader of the free world?

If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you.

Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.

I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.

In Scripture, a name often connotes purpose, authority, makeup, and character. In fact, a person's name is frequently seen as an equivalent of that person.

To a certain extent, I have to be the president's bad cop from time to time. I have to look people in the eye and tell them, 'No, we don't have enough money for that.' That is not a very popular thing to do in Washington.

Even the most disciplined commander-in-chief misspeaks from time to time.

If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.

My parents were always pretty free with me. They were of the school of thought that if you really cramp down on someone and tell them not to do all these things, it's gonna become like forbidden fruit.

In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.

Any government cannot work or function if it does not enjoy popular support.

It is not the function of the leader of government business to discipline members of the executive.

As president the law dictates how I do my job. The same law dictates how a judge should function.

Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people.

It is the responsibility of the government to ensure the House functions.

We also need a fund that can say 'no'.

It is the government's fundamental duty to ensure the security of every individual citizen.

There will always be a rule. There will be people who break the rules. There will be consequences. We fundamentally think these things will be true for a time. The question becomes, What are the consequences? Who enforces the consequences? What are the worst consequences?

The mental business is almost impossible to handle at the apex of government

Nobody in this country can tell a president of the United States that his mind is sick.

He's trying to belittle the presidency and drag it down to his own smart-aleck level.