1,121 Quotes About Authority

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.

Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.

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

We are confident that the merger authorities will conclude that this merger is unlawful and cannot go forward.

If the Taiwanese authorities refuse peaceful negotiation to solve the reunification issue, China will have no choice but to take all measures, including the use of force, to defend its territorial integrity.

We need to move forward, and I think the faster we can have an Iraqi authority in charge of things, the better we can improve the situation,

We were planning to do it, and he said that was a good idea, and I think we will move forward to cooperate with him, ... He is in favor of giving the Iraqis authority as quickly as it can be done.

meeting ... called by the U.S. to give their vision of the interim Iraqi authority. It will be a one-day meeting. And the U.S. will present its vision, and there will be a statement after the meeting.

In hindsight, you think, yeah there are things you could have done. But at the time we had multiple sources telling us the information and we had people in positions of authority ... telling us the information was correct. When you have officials telling you something and eyewitnesses telling you something, at some point you have to rely on that information.