#authority

The President sends us a billion-page paper that shows how he would spend the money if he were spending the money. He doesn't have the authority to spend the money. He doesn't spend $1 of the money. ↗

— Michael Enzi

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The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957. ↗

— Vernon Jordan

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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

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That's my main flaw: I always think authority figures or my boss is going to think something I do is funny. And usually they don't. ↗

— Jimmy Kimmel

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No man has any natural authority over his fellow men. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost. ↗

— Kim Y. Sam

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But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect. ↗

— Tupac Shakur

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