Quotes About Authority

If we finally chose as a country to take responsibility for the wars that we believe we must engage in, and rather than borrow money to exercise that authority to go to war, we actually pay for these wars, that would save us over a trillion dollars, because that's what we have spent in Iraq and Afghanistan - all through borrowed money.

The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President.

To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.

That a district judge would overrule the president of the United States on a matter of border security in wartime is absurd.

My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around.

Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

We need a Donald Trump more than we've ever needed anybody since George Washington.

Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.

The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.

I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA.

We must show them we're superior and put them in their place. Dominate or be dominated.

Big surprise. Mom had instituted a curfew. Like there was something we'd do after midnight that we wouldn't do before.

Another sign, NO TANK TOPS. Under it, typically, an entire three-generation family, all in tank tops, flesh spilling. And what was it about shoulders? What was law enforcement's fear of shoulders?

Certain women in jail and prison make rules for everyone else, and the woman insisting on quiet was one of those. If you follow their rules, they make more rules. You have to fight people or you end up with nothing.

was one of those. If you follow their rules, they make more rules. You have to fight people or you end up with nothing.

The power of the expert is very great and the way in which an expert sees you may easily become the way in which you see yourself.

He determines the course of world events; he removes kings and sets others on the throne.

One of the reasons teenagers rebel is to test the limits to make sure they are still there. But for you it was particularly difficult. And something you never really got over.

People just don't seem to get me. Don't understand that I need my space. Always telling me what to do. They think rules and routines and clean hands and your p's and q's will make everything all right. They haven't got a clue.

Es cuando hay Dios, cuando todo está permitido. Así que nadie tan ferozmente peligroso como el justo, cargado de razón.

Evidently not. They are just governing

In doing this they are striking at the very foundations of the throne. These fools do not perceive that if that throne falls over, it is they who stand nearest to it who will be crushed.

Laws" and "rules" imposed on you From days of old renown, Are not intended for your "good" But for your crushing down. Then dare to rend the chains that bind And to yourself be true. Dare to liberate your mind, From all things, old and new.