Quotes About Authority

The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective, to be allowed to do his or her job, they must have authority over the budget.

The Homeland Security department doesn't have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can't direct anything except inside their bureau.

The little Napoleons in UMNO try to keep out people who are more intelligent than themselves.

No matter who you are or what you intend to do, you should not exceed the boundaries of the rule of law.

Government is not a human institution. It is a divine institution that humans are to run on His behalf. When they create their own rules, then they become against the creator and what He intended for government to do.

Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm interested in those complexities. But I want to address that in very forthright language and sometimes with images.

The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball.

If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of majority. That's the way it's done in the U.S., and that's the way it's done in Russia.

When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.

I don't interfere with regulators.

Governments cannot interfere in football matters - Fifa suspends countries for that.

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

The IMF acts on the mandate of the international community.

However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable.

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

A judge must be independent and must interpret the law, not make the law.

Courts should interpret the law but leave elected lawmakers to create it.

I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.

The court's authority must be clear, and it must not blatantly intervene in the decisions of the legislative and executive branches.

I won't intervene in Knesset decisions.

One of the most important things, especially when you're leaving school, is to realize you're going to be dealing with a lot of idiots. And a lot of those idiots are in charge of things, so if you're in an interview and you really want to tell the person off, don't do it.

When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.

To trust any man is the road to slavery.

The members of the Massachusetts Court removed Anne because her moral certitude was too much like their own.