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Quotes About Authority

As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.
~ Ian Holm
People in charge of intelligence are political as well.
~ Rick Santelli
I believe women need to take charge.
~ Denise Morrison
I love to play it. I think it's funny. It's always been funny to me. Somebody who's large and in charge but totally wrong-headed.
~ Rob Riggle
I like being in charge. I like being able to control my own destiny and ideas.
~ Dawn Richard
I was the sixteen-year-old driving everyone to bingo and shopping. It was quite a responsibility. It made me the man in charge of a lot of things.
~ John Candy
Shondaland is my company. I run that mother. I am in charge. I am the leader. It's fantastic. It's also really hard. As it should be.
~ Shonda Rhimes
When you're a director, the job itself forces you to take charge.
~ Sondra Locke
The limits are set by the referees. Those are the ones who are in charge of making sure this is football and not American football.
~ Luis Enrique
You do hear a lot about 'player power,' but I'm one of those who believes the manager is there to take control, to be in charge.
~ Gareth Barry
I have never been afraid of being in charge, whether I have been coach, manager or caretaker.
~ Chris Hughton
When the bell rings in between the ropes, I'm in charge. No one can touch me. That's my time, no one can touch me.
~ Shawn Spears
You can't say Charles doesn't know what he's talking about.
~ Charles Woodson
If you're getting different prescriptions from different doctors, there has to be some sort of check and balance in there somewhere.
~ Nikki Sixx
If you're working for somebody and trying to check on them, it never works. You're just saying what they want you to say at the end of the day.
~ Matthew Stewart
There can only be one government, and the president has certain roles and duties, which are to hold the second key on money and on people but not to go and check the government or tell the government what it is supposed to do.
~ Lee Hsien Loong
The last time I checked, the president was supposed to sit down and figure out what he wanted and then get Congress to go along with it.
~ Diana Taylor
When I got to college, my coach let me handle everything, from calling the plays to changing protections to checking in the run game. He let me do absolutely everything at the line.
~ Derek Carr
In a tripartite government with its checks and balances, we have lost the balances.
~ John Fleming
The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO.
~ Michael Porter
If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.
~ James Bovard
People elect me to make sure the chief of police is the right chief of police. They elect me to make sure I have the right person running the airport.
~ Eric Garcetti
If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else.
~ Jung Chang
I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.
~ Larry Wilcox