Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.
We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today.
One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.
In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.
Foreign nationals entering the United States illegally who are taken into custody by the Border Protection Corps or by State or local law enforcement authorities must be promptly delivered to a federal law enforcement authority.
It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a present authority, but the resident memory of what qualifies what else is the case.
Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority.
I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.
My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.