Quotes About Authority

Every fair-minded person holding a position of authority must support the few who have stood up against the injustice being perpetrated in the name of blasphemy.

If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.

There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

Since the enactment of the War Powers Act in 1973, which I supported then and support now, Congress has been reluctant to assert its authority when presidents decide to send American soldiers into harm's way.

We support too big to fail. We want the government to be able to take down a big bank like JP Morgan and it could be done. We think Dodd-Frank, which we supported parts of, gave the FDIC the authority to take down a big bank.

I'm a strong supporter of states' rights to do what they need.

I know this government is running in a three-wheeler like an autorickshaw, but for the poor people the steering is in my hand and the other two are sitting behind supporting.

I'm not a policy and a strategy guy. I'm - you know, the military basically supports what the president wants, the decisions that he makes.

I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.

It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.

As president, I'm not supposed to play games or show my hand, because there's a lot going on behind the scenes that you don't see or hear and don't need to know.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

God has established what man is supposed to do, and he expects man to do it his way and not a way independently of him. And when you do things independently of him, you have consequences you don't want to bear.

The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.

There are certain things you must not say in spite of the fact that supposedly democracy means free speech. No. You are not allowed free speech. If you speak freely, you are then deemed as I was, to be a subversive.

Government was intended to suppress injustice, but its effect has been to embody and perpetuate it.

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

No one branch of the U.S. government should have supremacy over the other two.

There's no such thing as judicial supremacy.