I think it’s appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in teachers once more. – Michael Gove
The United States does not view our authority to use military force against Al Qaeda as being restricted solely to ‘hot’ battlefields like Afghanistan. – John O. Brennan
I’ve always had trouble with male authority figures because my father was such a martinet. – Molly Ivins
The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority. – Lord Acton
I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little. – James Ellroy
AIDS is a plague – numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health – though no one in authority has the guts to call it one. – Larry Kramer
We still are pestered by two parties: the aristocratic, which is panting for a counter revolution, and the factious, which aims at the division of the empire and destruction of the authority – and perhaps of the lives – of the reigning branch, both of which parties are fomenting troubles. – Marquis de Lafayette
Once you’re in a network, you can do a whole bunch of things to that network. It’s just that NSA doesn’t have the authority to do that. – Michael Hayden
Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration. – John White Geary
I would have liked to see where we would have the authority to arrest illegal aliens just by being here illegally and book them into our jails, but that’s not going to happen. – Joe Arpaio
You know, the taxing authority of the United States is our most powerful weapon. You know, the reason we separated from England was because the British were using it abusively. – Judd Gregg
The License Raj in India was a time when, to set up an industry, you needed a license. Which made the government an omnipresent and sort of all-pervasive authority. – Kumar Mangalam Birla
Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel’s interests to strengthen it by… continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation. – Leon Panetta
Statutory authority to improve fuel economy has existed for 35 years at the Transportation Department, and it still exists today. – Lisa Murkowski
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort. – Mahatma Gandhi
I don’t have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I’m doing. – Linus Torvalds
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. – Mary Wollstonecraft
The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished. – Robert Dallek
One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second. – Robert Baden-Powell
Don’t name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority. – Robert Creeley
Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so. – Pete du Pont
