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The criminal justice system should have the authority to determine the immigration status of all criminals, regardless of race or ethnicity, and report illegal immigrants who commit crimes to federal authorities.
Susana Martinez
Justice
Immigration
Crimes
Criminal
Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice System
Criminals
System
Immigrants
Status
Determine
Federal
Report
Authorities
Authority
Commit
Regardless
Race
Should
Ethnicity
Illegal
Who
Illegal Immigrants
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
Thomas Huxley
Faith
Knowledge
Natural
Unpardonable
Absolutely
Highest
Sin
Blind
Blind Faith
Him
Authority
Duties
Refuses
Acknowledge
Skepticism
I believe that President Nixon was right in what he did at Watergate. Lack of respect for authority and things like socialism are turning this into a weak, effeminate country.
Tiny Tim
Respect
Socialism
Watergate
Country
Believe
President
President Nixon
Weak
Nixon
He
Like
Effeminate
Authority
Did
Lack
Turning
Right
Things
In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.
Tom Robbins
Respectable
Respected
Got
Authority
Order
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
Walter Lippmann
Freedom
Men
Consoling
Economy
Most
Effort
Authority
After
Little
Preferred
Brings
You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.
Wayne Huizenga
Work
You
Mistake
People
Otherwise
Stay
Following
About
Touch
Delegation
Give
Make
Always
Hear
Up
Authority
Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
William Penn
Love
Man
Wife
Nothing
Ought
Rule
Between
Without
His
Authority
Children
Sweetness
Servants
For 50 years - that is, for most of my adult life - I worked tirelessly for the two-state solution in the face of countless frustrations, both on the part of the Israeli governments and the Palestinian Authority.
A. B. Yehoshua
Life
Face
Solution
Both
Adult
Adult Life
Part
Countless
Most
Israeli
Years
Governments
Authority
Tirelessly
Frustrations
Worked
Palestinian
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
Director
Creative
Other
Final
Input
Members
Lies
Give
Head
How
Authority
Essentially
Decisions
Then
Should
Team
Who
Film
It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.
Adam Cohen
Vote
Congress
Minorities
Constitutional
More
Area
Protecting
Than
Authority
Which
Act
Hard
Express
Right
Imagine
If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.
Adam Grant
Positive
Leadership
Behavior
Girl
Before
Earn
Admiration
Bossy
Along
Discourage
Labels
Authority
Behaviors
Want
Banning
Engage
Means
Teaching
Assert
Acts
Reinforcement
Receive
Early
The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
Aeschylus
Man
Stern
Always
Authority
Whose
Recent
To handle the economy and services in a country like Iraq requires delegation of authority and the choice of competent people.
Ahmed Chalabi
People
Country
Delegation
Like
Economy
Iraq
Handle
Authority
Choice
Requires
Services
Competent
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
Alan Arkin
Better
Believe
Say
Insane
Someone
Between
Authority
Artists
Who
Competitions
I'll be on my third honeymoon, so I'm more of an authority than I care to be.
Alan Thicke
Care
Honeymoon
More
Than
Authority
Third
I'm, you know, having begun my public service in state government. I very much respect the authority of states to make the decisions to provide for its citizen - the safety and welfare of its citizens.
Alberto Gonzales
Service
Government
You
Respect
Welfare
Safety
Citizen
State
State Government
States
Citizens
Having
Know
Make
Provide
Very
Begun
Authority
Decisions
Public
Much
Public Service
I'm not one to say many good things about Obamacare, but one of the nice things in it is it does give a tremendous amount of authority to the secretary of HHS.
Alex Azar
Good
Good Things
Nice
Tremendous
Tremendous Amount
Secretary
Say
Obamacare
About
Give
Does
Authority
Many
Nice Things
Amount
Things
Every actor strives to be in the moment, and when you're on a horse, you constantly have to communicate with it and assert your authority.
Alexander Dreymon
You
Communicate
Every
Constantly
Horse
Authority
Your
Moment
Assert
Actor
I went to high school in Ellicott City, Maryland, and I felt pretty ambivalent about the whole thing. It just took time away from my doing things on the Internet - like creating clans in Quake II or starting a Web design nonprofit. In school, I was just a kid. Online, I had authority.
Alexis Ohanian
Time
School
Internet
Design
Took
Kid
High
City
Pretty
High School
Web
About
Online
Maryland
Had
Like
Felt
Nonprofit
Doing
Ambivalent
Authority
Just
Creating
Whole
Away
Thing
Things
Starting
I saw a psychiatrist when I was younger because I had ADHD, and I had some problems with authority, so I guess I can kind of relate to that in a way. I know what it's liked to be probed and to be asked questions where people are looking for a certain answer and are trying to pull something out of your answer.
Alfie Allen
People
Problems
Looking
Relate
Guess
Saw
Way
ADHD
Out
Kind
Some
Something
Had
Know
Liked
Because
Answer
Questions
Trying
Authority
Psychiatrist
Where
Younger
Asked
Certain
Your
Pull
Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John.
Alfred Noyes
Christ
Think
Sayings
Those
One Or Two
John
Recorded
Only
Venture
Gospel
Gospels
Been
Authority
Which
Compared
Fourth
Two
Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.
Allan Bloom
Entertainment
Wait
Parents
Everything
Later
Tell
Would
Entertainment Industry
Silver
Gives
Had
Until
Industry
Understand
Rock
Always
Up
Authority
Children
Grew
Public
Them
Used
Platter
Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem.
Allen Boyd
War
Needs
Problem
Try
Diplomacy
Congress
President
Negotiations
Though
Solution
Give
No-One
He
Protect
Arrive
Encouraging
America
Authority
Wants
While
Use
Peaceful
Needed
The absence of men in the household has caused people to not know how to respond to authority with respect. There's a major problem with the patriarchs having been chased out of the house.
Alveda King
Respect
People
Problem
Men
Respond
Out
Having
Absence
Chased
Major
Know
House
Major Problem
Household
How
Caused
Been
Authority
Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.
Amy Chua
Great
Think
Enough
Instill
Great Thing
Questioning
Authority
Just
Children
Little
Thing
More than any other candidate, Mr. Trump embodies the evolving norms of communication that are being enabled and encouraged by technology and the matrix of connectivity that defines modern life: authenticity over authority, surprise over consistency, celebrity over experience.
Anand Giridharadas
Life
Technology
Experience
Communication
Consistency
Other
Defines
Evolving
Embodies
More
Over
Surprise
Encouraged
Trump
Matrix
Authenticity
Celebrity
Than
Norms
Authority
Modern
Any
Candidate
Being
Modern Life
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