Well, our statute provides us with authority to conduct a very broad inquiry basically to provide an investigation of 9/11 that's thorough, complete and will withstand the scrutiny of history.
Richard Ben-Veniste
HistoryAuthorityWillInvestigation
I say I'm not a control freak and I don't like to be in charge. But on the other hand, I really don't like anyone telling me what to do. I have some authority issues.
Maura Tierney
MeControlSayAuthorityHandFreak
Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.
Federica Montseny
AuthorityAlwaysSomethingAttempt
I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.
Maria Semple
JobWritingThinkAuthorityBring
Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration.
John White Geary
MenSacrificeAuthorityPersonalOwn
Essentially, it is the director who is the creative head of a film. The final authority on all decisions lies with the director. That is how it should be. And then other team members can give their creative inputs.
Aamir Khan
CreativeTeamDecisionsAuthority
I became obnoxious to the Jacobins because I reprobated their aristocracy, which aimed at usurping all legitimate authority.
Marquis de Lafayette
AuthorityBecauseAristocracyWhich
As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.
Michael Cunningham
SpeakAuthorityOpeningMustReaders
One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - is revising parts of the poetic self. Re-examining notions of the authority within the poem, and of the poem.
Eavan Boland
WomenSelfDoingAuthorityWithin
My problem has always been with authority, and I'm sure if anybody understands that, it's people in uniform.
Lewis Black
PeopleProblemUniformAuthority
The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority.
John T. Flynn
AmericaAuthorityOrganizedIndustry
I don't use 'always do this,' 'never say that' and I never give advice because I'm not the end-all, be-all authority.
Kevyn Aucoin
AdviceSayAuthorityNeverAlways
Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.
Steve Chabot
PeopleJust BecauseAuthorityRight
I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.
Hugh Lofting
ChildrenWritingAuthorityClaim
If you call someone up on a mistake - if the drummer's put an extra beat in a bar or something - you have a lot more authority if you can show them how to do it right.
Steve Winwood
MistakeSomeoneYouAuthorityRight
I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it.
Henry A. Wise
FightConflictLibertyAuthority
Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority.
Robert Creeley
NameYouSayAuthorityThey Say
Ideologically, the pursuit of science is not that different from the ideology that goes into punk rock. The idea of challenging authority is consistent with what I have been taught as a scientist.
Greg Graffin
ScienceAuthorityRockPunkIdeology
I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
Rita Mae Brown
BelieveDisrespectAuthorityMost
We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America. Period.
George Tenet
ControlDirectionAmericaAuthority
Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.
Rupert Everett
GoodMeYouAuthorityAlwaysTell
Authority is never without hate.
Euripides
HateAuthorityNeverWithout
A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.
Mary Shelley
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The saving ordinance of baptism must be administered by one who has proper authority from God.
David A. Bednar
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