Quotes About Authority

Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty. And you can't investigate up the chain of command, which is a huge impediment.

I believe investigative agencies should be run in an autonomous manner, and there shouldn't be any interference from the government's side.

There is an invisible moat around the senior royals.

I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority.

I'm not too involved in day-to-day matters. I only supervise at the board level.

The Revolutionary Guard controls almost everything in Iran, and this is hurting the people.

I said I'm the president of Iraq... I did not say deposed.

If you lose, you can't lead. If you don't lead, you're irrelevant. Winning is what it's all about in politics.

When the state was going to tell you what your future would be, science fiction was irrelevant.

The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.

I don't want the IRS banging down my door.

Unelected bureaucrats at the IRS have a history of weaponizing their power to go after conservatives.

Israel is not an anarchy.

No Israeli leader is a king.

Israel is much more effective when the Israelis are convinced that we are on the moral high ground: that we are acting not just out of might, but also out of right.

In Italy, managers don't know how long they're going to be in charge for and there's always rumors about someone taking over.

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

I'd rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He's trying to kill everybody in jail.

I would have liked to see where we would have the authority to arrest illegal aliens just by being here illegally and book them into our jails, but that's not going to happen.

Anybody can call me Jamie, and you have to watch it when you call me James. Then there's going to be a problem.

I'm the ayatollah of the Jane Austen fan base! I want to lead the fan base, not be attacked and devoured by the fan base.

What shall I do then with Jesus, which is called Christ?

People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.

I actually went to law school with Jim Comey. We were in the same class, and he was respected by our classmates just like he was respected by the agents that he supervised.