Famous Quotes & Sayings

We wanted to have a ruling on the ultimate authority to set those standards. What if they (the tribe) decide to change their mind tomorrow?

I've always had a healthy disregard for authority - it allows me to do my job as a portrait photographer and not as someone who is playing the power game.

Larry Alexander

We do not have and never have had the authority to force people to leave their homes.

Dan Bartlett

We do have the legal authority to do what we are doing. We have the necessity to do what we are doing.

We received a threat but I can't elaborate. We turned the plane around and notified the proper authorities.

We'll wait until preliminary results come in and then insist on a vote recount. If the authorities refuse to do so, we'll campaign to ensure that the election is declared unconstitutional.

Max Cleland

We gave you the authority to go after those who came after us,

William Shakespeare

Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute 'shall'?

The problem is authority. But these Vatican officials seem unable to understand authority except as authoritarianism.

We haven't been given authority to print it,

We have not had bishops tell us we're treading on the bishops' authority. If they did, we would back off.

The president believes that he has the authority necessary. But we're willing to work with the Congress if they feel that further codification of that is needed.

The problem is, who do they report to? No one knows, ... It seems there is no one who has authority over all these people coming down from all over the United States.

Rodrigo Rato

Those are the three main elements in which we're working with Iraqi authorities,

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.

Mark McKinnon

The job of elected leaders is to deliver results that represent the interests of the citizens who placed them in a position of authority with their voice, their vote. But these days, money talks louder.

We know that the Chinese authorities' views on Taiwan and human rights differ from ours,

I deeply regret that those with the authority and responsibility to deal appropriately with Brendan Smyth failed to do so, with tragic and painful consequences for those children he so cruelly abused.

Well (expletive). Colley doesn't have the authority to call out the national guard. Only the governor does. This kind of (expletive) has been going on all day.

Tom Ridge

unify people, priorities and programs under a single line of authority.

You didn't call about her wrists. You didn't call about your wife running off. You never called authorities.

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.

Tom Daschle

I support the president's authority to make decisions with regard to clemency and pardons. That is a president's right, ... But I must say I am troubled deeply by the lack of remorse, the lack of empathy for the victims on the part of the Puerto Ricans themselves. And based upon that, I intend to vote in favor of the resolution.

Geoff Smith

People are reluctant to change because they see it as a challenge to their authority.

Our job is to serve each tribe. We don't supplant their authority; we do not override their authority. We can only exercise the authority they grant us.

Stephen Hadley

Palestinian President Abbas earned the trust of his people when he was elected on a platform of peace this past January. Now the Palestinian Authority must make good on that promise by fighting terrorism.

William Shakespeare

O, what authority and show of truth can cunning sin cover itself withal!

Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority.

George W. Bush

The executive branch shall construe the provisions that call for furnishing information to entities outside the executive branch in a manner consistent with the president's constitutional authority to supervise the unitary executive branch and to withhold information (from Congress and, of course, the public).

Donald Trump

We will end the sanctuary cities that have resulted in so many needless deaths. Cities that refuse to cooperate with federal authorities will not receive taxpayer dollars, and we will work with Congress to pass legislation to protect those jurisdictions that do assist federal authorities.

Chuck Smith

[Satan] has been thoroughly defeated and only holds people by usurped authority and power.