1,121 Quotes About Authority

It's the most expansive vision of the executive power of a president in our lifetime. To suggest that (Congress has) given him a blanket authority to do what he has done is a vast stretch.

If we were here talking about dangerous dogs smoking, the city would have authority. This is not about smoking. This is about which level of government can regulate it.

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?

The shipping community wants to have some comfort that the transfer will be a seamless one and that Panamanian authorities have seized their responsibility to run the canal in a professional way.

All slots belong to the Airports Authority of India and the authority on needs of a public service allocate these slots and that also goes for parking bays. The question is whether this could be traded by Sahara or not that is something we will look at.

We said we would give 48 hours for the ceasefire to be implemented on the ground. What we have seen is more violent incidents than before ... and the Palestinian Authority has done very little, if at all, to stop the fighting.

The impervious cover question somehow brings out the challenge to our water quality authority.

I denied (it then and)... again in October 2004 having received any profit in any form from the Iraqi authorities or the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein,

Needless to say, we are relieved to know that your local authorities treat such crimes with the seriousness that they deserve.