Quotes About Control

The constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it.

I'm difficult for management. That's why I have the reputation because nobody challenges management.

As home secretary, I gained a reputation for being 'tough'; less concerned with liberty than with public protection.

Once Google is selected to run the infrastructure on which we are changing the world, Google will be there for ever. Democratic accountability will not be prevalent. You cannot file a public information request about Google.

While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require government intervention in markets to make them work.

Flying a good airplane doesn't require near as much attention as a motor car.

Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute force. One person beats another until the latter will obey him, work for him, if he require it, or do nothing if he require it.

We seem to be our own worst enemies. We should require critical U.S. infrastructure to remain in U.S. hands.

In 1914, there were two countries in the world that required you to have a passport if you wanted to enter - Czarist Russia and the Ottomans. Anywhere else, you could come and go as you pleased.

Most of the time nothing much is required of directors, which is a pity.

The education business is a little murky because by 1900, it has been pretty well decided that a certain amount of education was required to make the system of repression work. You had to have people who showed up punctually. You had to have people who took their orders obediently and understand them fully.

I will do everything that is required from me, but if people get bored of me, I can't control their emotions.

Autocratic power requires the degradation of moral authority - not the capture of moral high ground.

Archery requires very sensitive muscles.

Martial arts is just practice. Being a geisha requires complete control.

For the past several years, the Meth Caucus has worked to engage the Office of National Drug Control Policy on this issue. We have tried to get their attention that meth requires a strong, comprehensive Federal policy.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

As a kid who grew up in Montana, I resent regulation being formulated and forced in Washington from bureaucrats that have never been to Montana.

In my experience, it's quite an empowering thing to forgive someone because you take control and take ownership of that feeling, of that resentment, and that power that they have taken from you, and in some way, you end up being able to turn it around.

I was holding a reserve inside all along. When you're with someone as powerful as Donald, you have no choice. You can get lost within that power if you're not careful.

You have safety and soundness as primary purpose of the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the other agencies which control banking regulation.

Paying interest on reserve balances enables the Fed to break the strong link between the quantity of reserves and the level of the federal funds rate and, in turn, allows the Federal Reserve to control short-term interest rates when reserves are plentiful.

When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.

Solid-fuel rockets can't easily be shut down on command.