Quotes About Authority

The man is king. The man is supreme.

As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable.

The Constitution has to be supreme.

No one supposes that the government of the United States is supreme, beyond the sphere plainly defined by the constitution: Neither does any one deny that the State is supreme within its proper sphere of action.

Deciding not to decide is, of course, among the most important things done by the Supreme Court. It takes a lot of doing, but it can be done.

We may not be able to control the Supreme Court... but we can control the money.

Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

The president typically never does comment on anything involving the Supreme Court cases, Supreme Court ruling, or Supreme Court finding, typically.

We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.

The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible.

I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.

In America, the Supreme Court and the American people believe no one is above the law.

I have never pretended to be a legal scholar, but when scores of lawyers are lining up to agree with the Supreme Court that the president has the power to make choices when it comes to whom to deport and whom to let stay, then I tend to agree with them.

Our Supreme Court has been very clear that the government can't just simply say something and make it so.

I never want to be in the business of predicting what the U.S. Supreme Court will do.

The Supreme Court is very capable of acting quickly when it needs to.

The Supreme Court should interpret the law, not make the law.

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

There's nothing like making a decision when you're a football referee. It really pushes you to be very clear - to make that decision and to sell it to everybody who's there. You believe in it, but you have to make sure other people believe in it, too.

Putin was very careful to gradually sort of rotate people in and out of power, to make sure that he had competent bureaucrats by his side at all times, to keep the machine running.

If women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than women?