Quotes About Control

The people who are thinking most about big data right now are corporations and governments.

Sports can't be run by governments.

I don't care how sacred is freedom, but I think the time has come for governments, at least the Malaysian government, to censor the Internet.

One thing is clear: Our governments have too many laws.

I believe in small governments or no governments. I think the majority of people want to have big government, a big brother taking care of them.

In my eight years as governor, I did everything I could to resist federal control of issues that belong to the states.

In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top.

Congress is like first grade, only not as well behaved.

All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.

I am entirely against censorship. It goes against my basic grain - a mature society need not be told what to do.

I'm not the grand poobah. I'm not the emperor. That's not what I want to be.

World leaders and major political figures have often had delusions of grandeur.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

It was Grant's company and he made all the decisions. And that was just fine.

The cold grasp of corruption shackles the District of Columbia.

We're always grasping to feel safe. Ultimately, some people feel safe through love or family or community. Some people through exerting control.

Power draws you in; it's something we can gravitate toward.

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.

Because I'm short, I have a low center of gravity and I know how to use my weight. If I don't want nobody to pick me up, they can't. They'll catch a hernia trying.

This is a great country. You're trying to tell me we can't keep people from coming into our country if we really had the desire to do it? I don't buy it.

I need to have a great deal of control and the ability to share my control with my collaborators and grant them the freedom and the quality of work I think these people deserve. If I don't have those elements, I walk away.

Acting is a great life and all that, but it's the director who is really in control.

I had no great love for the trappings of power.

I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn't seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.