Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Simmons

Seeing these heroes is inspiring. T.I. has authority.

Graham Taylor

Self assessment, combined with the authority of the Certified Open processes, gives us a light touch/high rigor approach. Even the smallest supplier can compete on level terms. This is very much a scheme where both the public and private sectors jointly benefit from a more open market.

Jonathan Mayhew

Rulers have no authority from God to do mischief

Sam Perkins

The board has authority to enforce its regulations any time there's a violation.

The board cannot be expected to surrender its authority to another branch of government; there is a fundamental issue of separation of powers here.

The big question in our minds is over who has authority.

The BOJ used its authority to make the decision even though deflation remains a problem. I hope the bank is prepared to take responsibility for its actions.

Nothing ruins a perfectly pleasant trip like a position of authority.

The authority received protests from various police and community officials.

Viktor Yushchenko

The authorities ... used the talks to cheat,

The authorities in Belgrade ... want to avoid this event.

The authorities in Belgrade used every trick in the book to prevent a fair campaign, rig the election and distort the results, ... In so doing, they have fooled no one. Milosevic has been repudiated and claims by his regime to the contrary are laughable.

The authorities have got the ballot boxes ready with the votes inside and they are deciding whether it would look better internationally if Mubarak wins with 75 per cent or 80 per cent of the vote.

Viktor Yushchenko

That is why the ... (opposition) has decided to pull out of the talks. We are stopping talks with the authorities. We will talk with them only from the position of people power.

take her social cues from those in authority around her.

Chris Collins

It's tragic. My client is very sad that Mr. Bronson left the earth. But I'm disappointed that Colorado authorities didn't look into it further before they decided to drag my client out here.

It's tough to say where Spitzer's authority begins and ends.

David has always been one of those quietly influential staffers that has an impact all of out proportion to their public profile. He knows how to get things done, and when he talks, people listen because they know he has the authority of the vice president behind him.

Daniels is taking a 75-year stream of road payments that should be managed by nine governors all for himself. He will be gone in eight years. Why are we in such a rush to give this vast authority to this governor?

Condemnation is very nice, but it won't bring back to life the people who were killed. The Palestinian Authority has to take concrete steps to make arrests, to put people behind bars, to put obstacles in the way of the terrorists.

Maria Cantwell

Congress has authority to protect, I believe, our most important species,

The next step is really for that port authority board to conduct their first meeting. I would expect that to be a sort of organizational meeting, where they might create things like bylaws.

You think you can circumvent our authority and our powers. You can't.

Then we'll be bringing our draft recommendations to council and the Port Authority by early fall.

Peter Baker

It's an ongoing problem. I'm a firm believer that the project manager needs the authority to make decisions without going to higher-ups once the project has been authorized.

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,

It's convenient, ... If there is no statute, even if we see something, we don't have authority to do anything about it.

It is therefore high time that we learned from past mistakes and used our considerable moral authority on the question of nuclear disarmament for the greater good of international peace and stability, rather than simply protecting at any cost an increasingly dangerous actor on the international stage.

It is the position of the university that any such offers cannot be valid without the express authority and consent of the university as the current legal owner of the Circleville Farm property.

It should release detainees it has no legal authority to hold. It should provide trials to detainees believed to have committed crimes and it should investigate and prosecute US officials responsible for the torture of detainees.

that's one of the reasons the Development Authority was off track so far. You didn't know what they were doing.

Denis MacShane

The British policy since the start of this crisis has been to reinforce the authority of the United Nations.