#authorities

We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us. ↗

— George Pataki

#defend #give #important #investigation #laws

In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt. ↗

— John Reed

#authorities #comes #contempt #every #excites

I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had. ↗

— Sam Sheppard

#authorities #give #had #i #information

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#athlete #authorities #chances #even #forty

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#authorities #autocracy #dictatorship #envied #freedom

Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn which ones to trust. ↗

— John Stossel

#authority #bad #bias #central #central authority

So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused. ↗

— Anna Louise Strong

#authorities #brother #chance #chinese #convinced

We must continue our fight to ensure that Federal, State, and local authorities have the resources and support necessary to combat this growing epidemic. This is a top priority for me and many of my colleagues here in Congress. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#colleagues #combat #congress #continue #ensure

Don’t bother calling the cops, because nobody can find me here. I know, because after all these years, I’m still trying to find myself.
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— Jarod Kintz

#cops #find-myself #identity #introspective #police

Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy and it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to which searches by public authorities are ordinarily subject. ↗

— Byron White

#been #classrooms #easing #easy #evident