The EPA has no legal authority to expand the definition of navigable waters under the Clean Water Act, as the Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear. – Paul Gosar
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive. – Ernest Hemingway
The saving ordinance of baptism must be administered by one who has proper authority from God. – David A. Bednar
We magnify our priesthood and enlarge our calling when we serve with diligence and enthusiasm in those responsibilities to which we are called by proper authority. – Gordon B. Hinckley
Authority is not a quality one person ‘has’, in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him. – Erich Fromm
The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war. – Clare Short
My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority. – Chris Hayes
In 1600, when Shakespeare’s audience at the Globe heard ‘Hamlet’ for the first time, every one of them knew very well what it meant to be handed a cup of wine by a figure of authority and told to drink. – Neil MacGregor
Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students. – Ferdinand Marcos
My reason, it’s true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn’t rule them so much as tyrannize them. – Pierre Corneille
I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately. – Matt Gonzalez
The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority. – Marie de France
In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when. – Max de Pree
Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing. – Michael Polanyi
Ultimate authority in a global system remains with sovereigns. Governments will not have it any other way: politicians face instant rejection from their electorate if they allow transnational authorities to dictate terms. – Michael Ignatieff
Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they’re going to enforce. – Lou Barletta
I became obnoxious to the Jacobins because I reprobated their aristocracy, which aimed at usurping all legitimate authority. – Marquis de Lafayette
The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority. – Julius Wellhausen
I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy. – Jurgen Klinsmann
There are some classified documents there that we received from the CIA. Our arrangement with the CIA was that we could by mutual agreement declassify these documents, but we had no authority to unilaterally declassify them. – Louis Stokes
Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker. – Mikhail Bakunin
Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a ‘Fall’ is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated. – Kenneth Burke
Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority. – Jack Schwartz
The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority. – John T. Flynn
I don’t use ‘always do this,’ ‘never say that’ and I never give advice because I’m not the end-all, be-all authority. – Kevyn Aucoin
