Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Rick Perlstein

Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress.

Carl Rogers

Experience is the highest authority.

Carl Rogers

Experience is, for me, the highest authority.

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.

Rahul Dravid

We have the option of taking up the issue with the relevant authorities, but keeping the relevance and importance of the series we have decided to let the issue pass and put it to rest.

Today the Supreme Court did not rule that the president has the authority to detain an American citizen on American soil. What they did was delay the inevitable -- that Padilla must be charged with a crime.

Today's uncertainties call for vigilance by the authorities in both mature and emerging market economies in pursuing sound economic policies. Investors need to recognize the costly consequences of sudden reversals in global conditions that could impact the markets.

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.

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.

B. F. Skinner

Most, if not all, of these people down there were trying to do the right thing. They were under a lot of pressure, and they took a lot of shortcuts that may have resulted in a lot of waste. And they may have abused their authority to enter into contracts that they were not authorized to do.

Middleton bus station is extremely impressive and the Authority is committed to building more of its kind throughout Greater Manchester in the years to come.

Who has the authority to do this? Well, the people that make the maps ... you've got to standardize things at some point.

You have to factor in the timing needs of the Housing Authority which were very unique, and the ongoing businesses that were involved in each, so these were not typical land sale transactions.

You can complain to a small bank, but you can't always complain to a big bank. When you talk to people at a small bank, they actually have the authority to make decisions.

Dan White

It does create some administrative matters for the election authority in setting up these booths and getting staffing for them.

George Clooney

I thought it was a good time to talk about responsibilities of the Fourth Estate and always questioning authority - which at times we shirk.

It is extremely regrettable. We hope investigation authorities will conduct a thorough probe.

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,

Khalil Greene

I was trying to swing the bat with some authority, and not be overly defensive.

I was very hands-on with the Ports Authority because we had a lot of issues with them, ... Our big issues were funding of the new bridge in Charleston, whether to expand in Charleston. Port issues were front and center during our administration.

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.