Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Johnson

We don't have the authority under law to reform CAFE standards for passenger vehicles. We need Congress to give us the authority to do passenger cars.

I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it.

Tobin being here full time is good ? you want someone with authority on site. That will make decision-making a lot faster.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

The data is brought before the commission. Only the commission has the authority to change the listing of a species,

The defendant's style in this case is to be passive-aggressive. She flouts this court's authority at every opportunity so that it makes this trial somewhat of a farce.

The defendant, as a teacher at the school, was in a position of trust and authority over the children.

We have made clear that we believe that we already have the authority for a military strike, should such an option be chosen.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt

Plus, the response from Sept. 11 was a lot different. You had (government officials) out there with a sense of control and authority, despite what we saw in 'Fahrenheit 9-11.' Here, the complete lack of authority immediately becomes the type of stuff that comedians are great at doing.

James Carafano

Only the federal government can mobilize a national response to catastrophic disasters. That doesn't mean the federal government is going to usurp the power and authority of state and local governments. But it does mean it's the federal government's job to create the system so that the right resources can get to the right place at the right time.

Mr. Rios used taxpayer-funded school equipment to copy and distribute to children an offensive statement. The principal exercised his authority to remove Mr. Rios as junior varsity baseball coach, and it certainly was an appropriate decision.

Ahmed Chalabi

meeting ... called by the U.S. to give their vision of the interim Iraqi authority. It will be a one-day meeting. And the U.S. will present its vision, and there will be a statement after the meeting.

My job is to keep people out of court. If there is a (medical) decision with no authority, you go to the courts.

One benefit of the law is that it gives schools the authority to do things they've wanted to do for a long time but couldn't.

Geronimo

Of course not, but the authorities decided it that way, and they are the ones that rule.

Nonetheless, struggle for civilian supremacy is still perilous and uncertain. (Wahid) is struggling for authority over the military.

Nonetheless, struggle for civilian supremacy is still perilous and uncertain, ... (Wahid) is struggling for authority over the military.

We are not authorizing any payments that go to the Palestinian Authority or through the Palestinian Authority.

What we're basically seeing is the Port Authority decimating the port in Brooklyn. This is part of the pattern of them shutting down the port.

David Blunkett

There are some really good experiments with the youth offending service, joining up youth offending teams with the youth justice board, and good local authority and primary care trusts working together.

John Edwards

I believe the president should have been given the authority he was given. I believe it's a very good thing that Saddam is gone. ... I think at the time it was the right thing to do to give the president that authority. I think if we'd have given John Kerry that authority we'd be in a very different place because he would have built a coalition to be successful.

Michael Chertoff

because our constitutional system really places the primary authority in each state with the governor.

Newt Gingrich

No Palestinian official should talk about or threaten bloodshed, but yet it is a routine pattern in this region for the Palestinian Authority to, in effect, incite violence,

Don Bluth

Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them-the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome.

Needless to say, we are relieved to know that your local authorities treat such crimes with the seriousness that they deserve.

Get the plane on the ground. Let the authorities deal with the hijackers. As in a mugging, the thing you don't want to do is grab the pistol out of the mugger's hand. Give the mugger your wallet. In a hijacking the proper thing to do is sit tight and not challenge the hijackers.

Dick Thompson

From our point of view, Iraqi authorities have done a very good job in responding to the outbreak and have been very transparent about what is known about the human disease.

John Prescott

If a party loses its local authority base, it won't be long before it runs the risk of losing power nationally.

If at least someone is trying to find jobs for people, then you have ... stability and maybe in the long run you will help the (Palestinian) Authority per se.

I don't think we should just give up stuff. We have a responsibility to the authority -- not just the city.

Bede Griffiths

I had made a god of my own reason... Even if theoretically I now acknowledged the authority of God and the Church, in practice I was still the ruler and the judge. I was the centre of my own existence, and my isolation from the rest of the world was due to the fact that I had deliberately shut myself up within the barriers of my own will and reason.

Andy Roddick

I felt like I needed to (get more aggressive), ... I need to make these guys scared of my forehand, and that's what I tried to do today. I tried to serve with a little bit more authority and ended up hitting my second serves great.