Quotes for Authority

Under the law, the FCC does not have the authority to revoke a license of a broadcast station based on the content of a particular newscast.

Ajit Pai

It is a historical fact that President Bush pushed this nation into a war that had little to do with apprehending terrorists. We did not seek an impeachment of President Bush because, as an executive, he had his authority.

Sheila Jackson Lee

I grew up really being able to stand up to authority.

Winnie Byanyima

If people are stealing the resources of this nation, if people are taking bribes - if judges or persons in authority, whether they are judges or whoever they may be in government, ministers, whoever, if they are taking bribes - it attacks the fundament of our existence as a society.

Yemi Osinbajo

Especially if you don't have a job that's providing fulfillment in your technical expertise, there is a lot of reward to working on a very smart and demanding community that will respect you and will give you leadership and authority based on what you do.

Mitchell Baker

Pie throwing is always a very funny incident. For a few seconds it takes away the dignity of authority. It's a thing a person can do without hurting another person to relieve tension.

Soupy Sales

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

John Dalberg-Acton

There's something structurally integrated with foreign coverage. Reporters often default to thinking of their government as the sort of ultimate authority.

Masha Gessen

No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.

Ernestine Rose

That's my main flaw: I always think authority figures or my boss is going to think something I do is funny. And usually they don't.

Jimmy Kimmel

I just remember that pivotal moment when you're a young adult, and you realize that these authority figures are human beings, too, and they're figuring out their lives just as you are, and they're flawed.

Gia Coppola

I've had a contemptuous relationship with authority throughout my life. I found myself at odds with authority, and I'm disdainful of blind authority.

J. K. Simmons

I would like to find, or I would like a part to come to me that is like the part that Dennis Franz was fortunate to be able to play on 'NYPD Blue,' a sort of similar-looking actor to me, a generic, bald white guy who you would often think of as playing the authority figure. But he was the disgruntled middle-man. That would be a fun character.

J. K. Simmons

I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.

J. K. Simmons

I think teenagers at any time are testing to see how far they can go and where authority comes in.

Emily Meade

One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.

Elmer Davis

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Anne Bradstreet

More than any other candidate, Mr. Trump embodies the evolving norms of communication that are being enabled and encouraged by technology and the matrix of connectivity that defines modern life: authenticity over authority, surprise over consistency, celebrity over experience.

Anand Giridharadas

The art of leadership is not to spend your time measuring, evaluating. It's all about selecting the person. And if you believe you selected the right person, then you give that person the freedom, the authority, the delegation to innovate and to lead with some very simple measure.

Pierre Nanterme

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.

Nigella Lawson