Quotes About Authority

Zanu-PF is a sacred party. It will rule and rule. Those barking will continue doing that while Zanu-PF remains in power.

The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything that's happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.

A judge's role is to ensure that the legislature remains within the limits of its assigned authority under the Constitution. Judges have no authority to second-guess the wisdom of the value judgments and policy choices the legislature has made.

Military rule in Indonesia formally ended in 1998, but the army remains above the law.

Nothing really changes: the individual's ability to project his message or throw his weight around remains minuscule.

The judiciary is the only institution in the country which remains totally unaccountable. There is no institution with disciplinary powers over the judiciary.

Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people.

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.

Every once in a while, the Senate seems to remember that it belongs to a coequal branch.

Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.

It should be remembered that the president cannot, by executive order, do things that affects the public at large unless there is some Congressional basis for it.

If you have to remind people you're the boss, I don't think you're going to be a very effective leader.

I think it's very important to send the message that, while parents are needed to remind you to practice and occasionally force you to finish things... they also need to learn to respect you. You as an individual, ultimately, are the captain of where you're going.

By raising bread-and-butter issues, we remind the Government of the things that it may forget or ignore.

They don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.

It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.

See, governments are overrated. They come and go in 5 or 10 years; it is we who have the power. But we are like Hanuman in 'Ramayan,' who needed to be reminded of his power.

Reminding oneself that not all rules are good rules and sometimes it's good to challenge them is an important part of being an effective parliamentarian.

Christopher Isherwood's eponymous character in 'Mr Norris Takes the Train' reminds me of Boris Johnson, who seems to have stumbled and bumbled into power.

I like being in charge of the remote control.

There should be some other provisions in the Constitution whereby if the Government is not functioning well, it can be dealt with. In a parliamentary democracy, this should be done only by Parliament. The prime minister should be answerable only to Parliament and it should only be Parliament that can install him or remove him.

I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.

At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings.