Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's not clear that the governor has the authority to invoke a line-item veto on a policy area, ... There's going to be some interesting conversations on that.

Dick Cheney

evidence of the collapse of any central regime authority.

Nothing ruins a perfectly pleasant trip like a position of authority.

The authority received protests from various police and community officials.

Viktor Yushchenko

The authorities ... used the talks to cheat,

The authorities in Belgrade ... want to avoid this event.

The authorities in Belgrade used every trick in the book to prevent a fair campaign, rig the election and distort the results, ... In so doing, they have fooled no one. Milosevic has been repudiated and claims by his regime to the contrary are laughable.

The authorities have got the ballot boxes ready with the votes inside and they are deciding whether it would look better internationally if Mubarak wins with 75 per cent or 80 per cent of the vote.

Viktor Yushchenko

That is why the ... (opposition) has decided to pull out of the talks. We are stopping talks with the authorities. We will talk with them only from the position of people power.

take her social cues from those in authority around her.

It's convenient, ... If there is no statute, even if we see something, we don't have authority to do anything about it.

Chris Collins

It's tragic. My client is very sad that Mr. Bronson left the earth. But I'm disappointed that Colorado authorities didn't look into it further before they decided to drag my client out here.

It's tough to say where Spitzer's authority begins and ends.

David has always been one of those quietly influential staffers that has an impact all of out proportion to their public profile. He knows how to get things done, and when he talks, people listen because they know he has the authority of the vice president behind him.

Daniels is taking a 75-year stream of road payments that should be managed by nine governors all for himself. He will be gone in eight years. Why are we in such a rush to give this vast authority to this governor?

Condemnation is very nice, but it won't bring back to life the people who were killed. The Palestinian Authority has to take concrete steps to make arrests, to put people behind bars, to put obstacles in the way of the terrorists.

Maria Cantwell

Congress has authority to protect, I believe, our most important species,

The next step is really for that port authority board to conduct their first meeting. I would expect that to be a sort of organizational meeting, where they might create things like bylaws.

You think you can circumvent our authority and our powers. You can't.

Then we'll be bringing our draft recommendations to council and the Port Authority by early fall.

It's a groundbreaking opportunity. Not just for the Housing Authority, but for the city in its entirety. It's an opportunity to create a model and do something that so many others speak of, but so little have done. We can be a pioneer.

Alcee Hastings

It pains me to note that there were a number of significant deficiencies in the vote count by the authorities,

It's truly unpleasant to see a synagogue burned down, but this destruction was foretold. None of the Cabinet ministers had the illusion that the Palestinian Authority would want, and especially would be able, to save the synagogues from the mob.

It's very controversial, but the authorities eventually ruled that they are not Cuauhtemoc's remains,

For many people they don't have a choice. They take the 4 and the 5 and they have to go through Midtown. If you can take the local, the No. 6, that's a good idea and you definitely have to give yourself extra time. The Transit Authority says there'll be delays of 10 minutes, which always means to me that it will be a lot longer than that.

Force protection is the job of unit commanders in Bosnia and elsewhere, and they have the authority to take steps that they think are appropriate to match the threat they face.

Vince Lombardi

Football is like life -- it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

It's not unusual. We have no authority to hold them if they can make the bail.

The federal government has no authority to prevent California, or any state, from requiring warnings that provide truthful, important information to consumers.

Marc Rotenberg

The FCC simply does not have the statutory authority to extend the 1994 law for the telephone system to the twenty-first century Internet.

Sarah Martin

The ceiling has not been changed for years. Having to do this -- and it had to be done -- the Housing Authority did it the most fairly it could.

I hope the sports authority doesn't take it for granted that when they run this deal up the flagpole we're all going to salute,

They look like they're running a system which has neither law nor order, neither organization nor authority.