Authority Figure Quotes

You don’t have a staff General, you have a court.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power.

When you strike at a king, you must kill him.

Power reveals.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

You cannot effectuate change if you do not have power.

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

It is the curse of greatness that one must step over dead bodies to create new life

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position

As to mere power I have been for years in the daily exercise of more personal authority than any President habitually enjoys.

Power is paradoxical.

Sometimes, when I'm scolding the kids, I sound just like my mom. I'm like, 'How did Jonetta get in here?'

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

It's a lot easier to let someone else be Caesar.

Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.

My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.

I would love to do the whole 'Anonymous General Manager' storyline again. The way it was supposed to turn out was that I was supposed to be this almost mob-boss style character with this Napoleon complex, throwing his power around while running Raw. Obviously things didn't work out that way.

Xavier McDaniel made me respect him. I thought I could do anything I wanted to. He grabbed me one time and almost choked me out. He said, 'You're going to do this. You're going to go get coffee. You're going to go get doughnuts.' It's a game of respect.

Take me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines".

The less people know about what is going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Nobody is strong-minded around a President…