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He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
James Russell Lowell
Progress
Lesson
Think
Security
Highest
He
Firmly
Soon
Learns
Authority
Who
Seated
In 2006, the Congress had approved plans to allow the Fed, beginning in 2011, to pay interest on banks' reserve balances. In the fall of 2008, the Congress moved up the effective date of this authority to October 2008.
Janet Yellen
Fall
Beginning
Pay
Congress
Approved
Date
Fed
Allow
Had
Balances
October
Effective
Up
Authority
Moved
Banks
Interest
Plans
Reserve
I don't know how we will ever have the moral authority to deal with social welfare if we can't deal with corporate welfare.
Jeb Hensarling
Welfare
Will
Moral Authority
Corporate
Moral
Know
Deal
How
Authority
Social
Social Welfare
Ever
It is clear that IDEA '97 not only undermines the educational process, it also undermines the authority of educators.
Jeff Sessions
Only
Clear
Idea
Also
Educational
Educators
Authority
Process
Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.
Jeffrey Sachs
Government
Action
Meet
Would
Would-Be
Counted
Almost
Development
Between
Nobody
Because
Understands
Hand
America
Authority
Commitments
Senior
Actions
Even
Gap
Specialists
Aware
Treasury
Needed
Neither the SPLC, the liberal media, nor the Democratic Party has any authority on what constitutes 'hate.' They themselves are full of lies and hatred. They have no love.
Jesse Lee Peterson
Love
Hate
Hatred
Party
Liberal
Neither
Lies
No Love
Democratic
Democratic Party
Nor
Authority
Any
Themselves
Full
Media
Nobody wants a unitary voice of authority any more.
Jill Abramson
More
Voice
Nobody
Authority
Any
Wants
When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces.
Joe Biden
You
Constitution
Able
Give
Wrote
Him
Forces
How
Commander
Chief
Authority
Intention
Use
I have gone to Albany constantly in my capacity as budget director, because I don't think the way the transit authority works with the City of New York is very appropriate.
Joe Lhota
Director
Gone
Think
Appropriate
Way
City
Constantly
Budget
New
Because
Very
Authority
York
New York
Transit
Capacity
Works
Albany
The EPA has a history of overreaching its authority.
John Barrasso
History
Authority
EPA
The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.
John Dalberg-Acton
Government
Democracy
People
Fate
Power
Every
Other
Absolute
Absolute Power
Between
Principles
Makes
Tradition
Opposite
Hand
Legality
Authority
Sovereignty
Depends
Choices
Based
The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.
John Dalberg-Acton
Man
Superior
Country
Before
Duty
Every
Other
State
Spirit
Both
His
Deny
Authority
Same
Any
Who
Shows
Right
It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate.
John Jay Hooker
Law
Advice
Congress
Bench
President
Having
Put
Him
Without
Pass
Itself
Inferior
Officers
Senate
Authority
Sending
Plain
Them
Consent
'The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice to employ critics who moonlighted in the arts. They worked both sides of the street, so to speak.
John Lahr
Speak
Made
Practice
Drama
Sides
Critics
Magazine
Both
Both Sides
Had
Part
New
Employ
Most
Because
Always
Authority
Yorker
Arts
Worked
Who
Comparable
Street
I've always had trouble with authority.
John Milius
Trouble
Had
Always
Authority
I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down they long to be told what to do by a British accent. That's why so many infomercials have British people.
John Oliver
Natural
People
Long
Down
Think
British People
Respond
Voice
Accent
Still
American
Authority
Help
Deep
Many
Deep Down
Why
British
Authority can be faked. That's why impersonating a police officer is a crime. Sometimes the outward appearances of authority can be deceiving.
John Ortberg
Sometimes
Police
Crime
Outward
Police Officer
Officer
Authority
Deceiving
Appearances
Why
Real spiritual authority has to do with the truth of the actual words being spoken, and the spirit of the person behind the words. Really, authority is about truth: honest-living truth.
John Ortberg
Truth
Spiritual
Words
Spirit
About
Spoken
Real
Person
Authority
Behind
Being
Really
Actual
Authentic spiritual authority is what puts you in touch with reality.
John Ortberg
Spiritual
You
Reality
Touch
Puts
Authentic
Authority
As a preacher who is fully human, and clearly not divine, I can't speak as Jesus did. But I do seek to speak truth that carries weight and authority. All of us who preach the gospel aspire to speak under the authority of Jesus.
John Ortberg
Truth
Speak
Preach
Carries
Seek
Divine
Weight
Clearly
Gospel
Preacher
Authority
Did
Human
Us
Aspire
Who
Fully
Jesus
For over 200 years after the adoption of the Second Amendment, it was uniformly understood as not placing any limit on either federal or state authority to enact gun control legislation.
John Paul Stevens
Gun
Gun Control
Control
State
Adoption
Federal
Over
Limit
Enact
Understood
Years
Amendment
Authority
Any
Legislation
After
Either
Placing
Second
Second Amendment
A chief justice's authority is really quite limited, and the dynamic among all the justices is going to affect whether he can accomplish much or not. There is this convention of referring to the Taney Court, the Marshall Court, the Fuller Court, but a chief justice has the same vote that everyone else has.
John Roberts
Justice
Vote
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Marshall
He
Court
Limited
Affect
Accomplish
Referring
Chief
Chief Justice
Authority
Same
Going
Quite
Convention
Dynamic
Whether
Justices
Much
Really
Fuller
Among
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
Industry
Trade
Provided
America
Authority
Should
Organized
Each
Code
Association
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
Men
Sacrifice
Own
Every
Honorable
Consideration
Destructive
Promote
Lawful
Employed
Around
Authority
Personal
Just
Them
Agents
Interests
The people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with authority either in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches.
John Witherspoon
Character
People
Ought
Those
Moral
Moral Character
General
Invest
Executive
Judicial
Branches
Authority
Legislative
Regard
Either
Whom
The New Testament is of full authority and open to the understanding of simple men as to the points most needful to salvation.
John Wycliffe
Simple
Men
Understanding
Points
Open
New
Most
Testament
Salvation
Authority
New Testament
Full
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