Quotes About Authority

I guess you're right," Trump said several times. "We could do that." But then he ignored most reviews or vetting and did what he wanted.

Real power is fear.

Do you want this job?" the president asked McMaster. "Yes, sir." "You got it," Trump said and shook McMaster's hand. "Get the media. Get the cameras in here." He wanted a picture with his latest general who looked out of Central Casting.

Everyone wants your position," Trump continued. "I made a huge mistake giving it to you." The president continued with venom. It was chilling. Cohn had never been talked to or treated like that in his life. "This is treason," Trump said.

The major problem might be allegations of obstructing justice by urging Comey to drop the Flynn investigation, and then firing Comey. But Dowd believed that the president's Article II constitutional authority clearly encompassed firing an FBI director.

the vice president was a counting clerk, period.

Trump had no understanding of how government functioned. At times he would just start drafting orders himself or dictating

Real power is—I don't even want to use the word—fear." Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump in an interview with Bob Woodward and Robert Costa on March 31, 2016, at the Old Post Office Pavilion, Trump International Hotel, Washington, D.C.

Trump listens to you. He's always looking for adult supervision.

What a mess. Dowd shrugged his shoulders at the waste of time, but he saw the full nightmare. It was quite a sight seeing the president of the United States fuming like some aggrieved Shakespearean king.

The Deep State was not the problem. It was the up-in-your-face state.

At 12:01 p.m., several Secret Service agents began reducing their setup around the estate. Trump was no longer president. No more access to the nuclear "football." The security footprint shrunk in an instant.

excessive anger against authority, vindictiveness and temper tantrums. As far as she was concerned, that described the press.

The chairman is not in the chain of command.

realized," Bannon said later, "I'm the director, he's the actor.

Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

Despite the absence of fetters, chains, and guards, the doctor was forced to submit to his unfreedom, which looked imaginary.

Il apparaît en effet que les masses ont tort, et les individus toujours raison.

Ici on croit en Dieu. Et c'est pas le curé qui nous en empêchera. Il sait seulement pas à quoi ça sert, Dieu.

Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.

that the most potent power in the entire world came from having power over someone else.

We make a great bad guy, and they all say they hate us. But at the end of every day, people want to trust us. Because we're their government. And people trust their government.

We don't want to believe that the entire government can be jackknifed by a high school dropout.