Quotes About Authority

I was elevated as the State President and now I have been elevated as the Governor of the state.

I've got an extreme bias toward governors... they know what it's like to make hard decisions. They know what it's like to actually balance a budget - have a budget, first of all, and have a balanced budget.

Congress is like first grade, only not as well behaved.

All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.

I'm graduating and I'm 23 years old, so I can do whatever the hell I want.

There is a difference between jaywalking and grand larceny.

Here I am in my first command - a bit dazed but feeling very grand.

I'm not the grand poobah. I'm not the emperor. That's not what I want to be.

World leaders and major political figures have often had delusions of grandeur.

Some of the best kids I coach were raised by a grandmother who was so firm that they understood.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

It was Grant's company and he made all the decisions. And that was just fine.

I don't take anything for granted from any director. I am just a slave of my director.

The Constitution grants only Congress - not the president - the power 'to borrow money on the credit of the United States.'

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.

There is only one governor, and his name is Gray Davis.

I do think that it's extremely important with this character show her assuming power with a great deal of grace, and find out how to do things she won't like - the things she's called upon to do.

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.

Obama is a great leader. He can fire people up and get them to do what he wants.

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Acting is a great life and all that, but it's the director who is really in control.

I had no great love for the trappings of power.

I have to tell you, I'm a great teacher. Ask anybody who worked for me, except some secretaries who weren't very good.

The great thing about money is that people can use it to buy things they need instead of things self-appointed experts think they need.