Quotes About Authority

The representatives of people become uncrowned kings and queens once they get into Parliament.

The House of Representatives should not be locked down by the decided play of a few in leadership.

The beauty of our democracy is that the final authority is not the president of the United States, but instead the American public through their duly elected representatives in the United States Congress.

The president has immense powers, but he cannot spend money unless we, the people's representatives in Congress, have agreed that he can.

We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

We're representing our districts. I make decisions on my district.

It is imperative the government is held accountable to the people it represents and does not abuse its position in key areas of personal freedom and liberty.

Despite the belief of many career bureaucrats that elected political leadership works for them, our system is built on the idea that the permanent bureaucracy, such as it exists, works for the elected leadership, which in turn works for and represents the American public.

I feel like that's so ingrained in so many children that you are so confined and repressed growing up that, anything you do, you have to rebel against it at some point.

I've never really subscribed to the theory that repression breeds rebellion. I don't think that's really true.

The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

I believe that an independent judiciary is the crown jewel of our constitutional republic.

The rule of law is a republic. The rule of one person is a monarchy.

The political power of the Country must fall eventually into the hands of certain great families as it always has done in other republics.

This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.

I have just come from the castle, where I have seen the president of the republic, and I can tell you that he has accepted all of my proposals without making any changes.

The president of the Arab Republic of Egypt is the commander of the armed forces, full stop.

I will maintain the presence of a Mexican Army, and the Navy and police in the states of the Mexican Republic, where the problem of crime has increased.

In the case of Papa Pope, certainly he's making his daughter's world and the world of the republic a much better place.

The people run the country. So if people didn't want you shooting in their neighborhood, there's no authority that can tell them they have to. That's why it's called the People's Republic of China.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.

If Marilyn Manson would write a song that says, 'Do your damn homework,' it would make the world a better place, and it wouldn't hurt him at all. And if he doesn't like it, to hell with him. He can come fight us - by the bicycle racks.