Executive Authority

Famous quotes containing the words executive and/or authority:

    “When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.”
    —Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

    “The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation.”
    —Emma Goldman (1869–1940)