Famous Quotes & Sayings

They have a lot of authority to do that already, and the border security problems are exactly the types of crimes that they already have authority to do the wiretapping for.

This oversight board is not just a board made up of people who will rubber-stamp the decisions of the Transportation Trust Fund Authority. This oversight board will have the statutory authority to not only oversee the TTFA finances but to make sure our debt ceiling and our capital program are in line with what we said it would be.

There was never any question of our authority. BP was cooperative throughout the process. If in the future a company is not as cooperative, this rule would provide the board with an important tool.

John Ensign

There were many proposals that violated environmental laws. Things the president was trying to do to speed up the process. Yucca Mountain is in trouble by itself. The good thing about this legislation is that they don't have any fast track authority to move it through the congress.

It's authority we need to do our job more effectively.

Mike Huckabee

It's a bad idea for the military to make that decision and usurp the authority that under the U.S. Constitution stays with the governor and local authorities,

Jacques Barzun

Like Rousseau, whom he resembles even more than he resembles Voltaire , Shaw never gave a social form to his assertiveness, never desired to arrive and to assimilate himself, or wield authority as of right.

Jacques Barzun

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.

George Santayana

In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.

Federica Montseny

Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.

Galileo is made in Europe by Europeans. If the Americans want to scramble GPS, they can do it whenever they want . . . whereas our system is a civilian-based system run by a civilian authority and would be completely autonomous.

Broad claims of authority and broad claims of illegality are equally suspect.

Best Buy's authority in consumer electronics, our deep product assortments and outstanding store experience continue to make the difference with customers.

Robert A. Heinlein

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

Benjamin had like a quiet presence, but a presence that gave you a sense of authority and of being in control,

Every Liquor License Authority item, I have to step down.

Something the Fair Authority is trying to do is (to have) things that are ongoing.

Once the sentencing in this case is complete we are going to look at all the evidence federal authorities have obtained and will release. We will use it to evaluate the handling of this investigation and future investigations.

Felix Frankfurter

Decisions of this Court do not have intrinsic authority

The task of the state and the Louisiana Recovery Authority is to really gather everything together and try to help rebuild the state.

I've never been more excited about anything I've done on the authority.

Chad Johnson

Thanks to higher authority, I can't open my mouth, period, all week.

James Baker

Some will argue, as was done in 1990, that going for United Nations authority and not getting it will weaken our case,

Javier Solana

It would be very difficult for the help and the money that goes to the Palestinian Authority to continue to flow. The taxpayers in the European Union, members of the Parliament of the European Union, will not be in a position to sustain that type of political activity.

The shipping community wants to have some comfort that the transfer will be a seamless one and that Panamanian authorities have seized their responsibility to run the canal in a professional way.

Richard Pombo

the states should have ultimate authority over resource production, including the power to prevent it, in the deep waters off their coasts.

Stanley Milgram

The state produced in the laboratory may be likened to a light doze, compared to the profound slumber induced by the preponent authority system of a national government.

The (state) constitution gives the overall authority for elections like everything else to the governor,

The State Board of Education has . . . constitutional authority to direct the public schools. I don't think there's anything more (basic) in that responsibility than curriculum.

The Senegalese authorities insist that the Dakar continues as always with a podium finish and the prize presentations because this is a national event in Senegal.

The stroke that Sharon suffered illustrated to Israelis how much they need him now. In the eyes of most of them, including many who support rival parties, he is the conclusive authority on security matters.

The story is not true. Nothing happened. The authorities never contacted Mr.Cosby, and the first he learned of it was from the National Enquirer.

Richard Caborn

The slate has been wiped clean and every local authority will have their chance to make its case.