Quotes About Authority

When I was appointed deputy president, I accepted it, and it is the president's prerogative to appoint or remove anyone to the Executive.

Although the president has the power to remove an FBI director, the decision should not be taken lightly.

Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.

I embody the renewed monarchy for a new time.

My first day as a manager was at Digital Equipment in Atlanta. I was a sales rep. I was promoted from among my peers, so one day I was a peer, and the next day I was their boss.

I have repeatedly called for respecting institutions and the democratic process. Once the process is completed, we should always respect the outcome.

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

In America, we've replaced science with experts.

I knew that everybody could be replaced. Nobody lasts forever. And if you work for somebody, he's certainly got the privilege and the right to fire you.

The Assad regime has lost the consent of the governed, and it is difficult to see how a replacement Alawite regime would be able to regain this consent.

I'm not a reporter, so I get to say whatever - and then I'll get called into the office.

Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

To me, 'the establishment' means people who are out of touch with the people they're elected to represent.

If the communist party is controlling China, they represent China.

Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

I discovered I was a monotheist... That rules out polytheism. I have also had a problem with authority, which rules out any religion with a priesthood or leader who claims to be God's representative on Earth.

My job is to follow the law, not to make up the law that has been promulgated by the people or the people's representatives.

The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.

No man can be subject to any laws, excepting those which have received the assent of himself or his representatives and which are promulgated beforehand and applied legally.

It is essential to democracy that the elected representatives of the people make the laws that govern this country - and not the judges.