Quotes About Authority

I dont think any of the players will ever say they got close to me. Id never sit down and have a coffee with them.

I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.

I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.

I'm not allowed to be as liberal as I would like to be, you know? I'd do a lot more damage if I could!

Honestly, if I could be anything, I'd love to be a small-business authority type of person.

Politics runs on power and money and on ignorance.

The CVC and CAG are independent but merely recommendatory. The government often ignores their advice.

Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.

Ignoring a child's disrespect is the surest guarantee that it will continue.

Beijing has a history of ignoring the rules. It takes pride in it.

I'm completely free of the ill effects of factional influence.

An order to fire on people that do not fire on you is a completely illegal order.

Ask any cop, and they'll assure you that it doesn't exactly take a forensics team from NCIS to figure out that someone is an illegal.

If a president can enforce a part of a law and delay a part of a law, then does he have a power to not enforce any law he so chooses? If he can allow illegal aliens to freely run across our border, can he force legal citizens out of the country? Where would be the end of his power?

As men, we have the illusion that we run the world.

I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.

Most cops are not looking for understanding. They work in a world filled with a sense - real or imagined - of danger lurking around each corner and every hallway. Most cops are merely looking for respect.

History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.

Well, 50 was a made man before I met him. So that alone - you walk into a room, and there's an immediate respect.

I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.