Quotes About Authority

Why does everyone always assume the quarterback is the leader?

To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.

The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything.

She's my mother and the Queen.

Sure, I'd take the responsibility of queen any day.

It's great to be queen!

I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.

I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.

My husband may be the King of All Media, but I'm the queen of the house.

Oprah is the queen!

As a politician, I felt like a servant, but in the film industry, I feel like a queen.

You never remember what you say to the Queen, she just has this aura about her.

Medieval kings left the job of kindness to their queens. If the queen begged for someone not to be beheaded, the king could show mercy without losing face.

People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureheads, objects, like queens. It's a powerful yet politically powerless role.

Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.

It's a primitive thing, kings and queens.

Who needs checks and balances when the left, seemingly, knows and can decide right from wrong? When the left can decide what can be said and what cannot be said? When the left can decide how much money you're allowed to make or whether or not you deserve health care? It is a quest for power. And, it is dangerous.

There are two answers to every question - God's answer and everybody else's - and everybody else is wrong when they disagree with him.

The question of hegemony is always the question of a new cultural order.

Men who create power make an indispensable contribution to a nation's greatness. But, men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable.

Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Having kids certainly gets me to ask the question, 'Who is the adult here, and who is the kid?'

When journalists forget that our job is to question and annoy those in power, there can be huge consequences.