1,121 Quotes About Authority

Unfortunately, he went beyond his authority and he should have contacted someone higher up.

If at least someone is trying to find jobs for people, then you have ... stability and maybe in the long run you will help the (Palestinian) Authority per se.

Get the plane on the ground. Let the authorities deal with the hijackers. As in a mugging, the thing you don't want to do is grab the pistol out of the mugger's hand. Give the mugger your wallet. In a hijacking the proper thing to do is sit tight and not challenge the hijackers.

Thanks to higher authority, I can't open my mouth, period, all week.

The only change would be transferring the legal authority of the Immigration and Naturalization Services from the Justice Department to the Homeland Security Department,

The MRA takes the heat for everything that happens in the watershed, ... But they have no enforcement authority or responsibility.

One benefit of the law is that it gives schools the authority to do things they've wanted to do for a long time but couldn't.

The government doesn't have the authority to exclude people from the country, invited scholars, simply because it doesn't like what they have to say.

The port authority is the single greatest impediment to a revitalized waterfront.