Quotes About Authority

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

Method involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy.

If we accept the rule of those who think they are the bosses and lords of Mexico, nothing will change for the people on the bottom.

Barack Obama would never accept a court in Mexico decreeing what the law in the United States would be.

In Mexico, where I grew up, women rule the kitchen. They control everything that happens; they hold the power.

I didn't like the Feds coming to town when I was in Miami, telling me what to do. I didn't like them coming to town and thinking that they knew more about Miami than I do.

I can't imagine bringing in somebody else to direct my show. Wouldn't that be funny, if next season I had, like, Michael Bay come in and direct 'Better Things'? I wonder what that would be like?

When people sit in front of a microphone, they feel empowered.

I'm not the authority on the subject. I'm a middle-aged white guy speaking about racism. I'm just finding it a really difficult subject to broach.

Looking back, it amuses me that people imagined that I was a very brash, fearless, redheaded young revolutionary when I was in fact a very insecure, mousy-haired, middle-aged man with a deep fear of authority.

Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.

When you give the government an inch, they take a mile.

Being on a set where the director has lost control is just sickening. No one goes the extra mile, there's a lot of eye-rolling... it just breeds inertia. If a director is in control, the crew follow their leader. But the second anyone senses the directors are not sure, people just swoop in.

I'd run a mile if anyone in the Royal Family asked me to marry them!

Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.

Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.

There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.

Under our Constitution, military leaders have no choice but to endorse the president's decision after giving him their best advice.

I will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.

Charles Miller cannot bring down my government.

Mitch Miller knew exactly what he wanted me to sing. He didn't want me to improvise at all.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.

A President's unofficial or non-presidential actions do not affect millions of people.