Legitimacy Quotes · Page 2

I'm not going to question Brock's legitimacy.

— Frank Mir

The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy.

— Paul Krugman

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

— Alva Myrdal

At every step Donald Trump has been - his legitimacy has been questioned.

— Jonathan Karl

The only thing a lawyer won't question is the legitimacy of his mother.

— W. C. Fields

“The most legitimate experience to be shared is the personal experience”

— Giharu Si Perempuan Gunung

Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.

— Lord Acton

Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.

— Kofi Annan

It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU.

— David Cameron

I already have legitimacy as a filmmaker and now I'm trying to do stuff that's just fun. Until I find a cool…

— John Singleton

As much as we Egyptians treasure our military, acting alone it cannot provide the legitimacy to lay the foundations for democracy.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

I think, though, if I had to look at the role of government and what it does in people's lives, I see…

— Clarence Thomas

Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.

— William A. Dembski

Governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology.

— Taslima Nasrin

Karabakh conflict has a strong influence on the political climate both in Azerbaijan and Armenia. It is obvious, too, that the Azerbaijani…

— Garry Kasparov

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of…

— Colin Powell

The point is not where Barack Obama was born, the point is is that we've got congressmen on the Democratic side of…

— John Lewis

In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In November 2000, the Republicans stole from America our most precious right of all: the right to free and fair elections... Now…

— Cynthia McKinney

Being a good Hans Haacke student, part of his influence on me is that there's no difference between a gallery show and…

— Mike Mills

I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

That issue has been resolved for years now, and it's been resolved for at least two years in Donald Trump's mind. And…

— John Lewis

I would say the special experience of American wartime policy in the last 40 years, from Vietnam on, is that the war…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Nick spoke again. "Her legitimacy will be questioned." Gabriel thought for several moments. "If our mother married her father, it means that…

— Sarah MacLean

As the corporation's size and power grew, so did the need to assuage people's fears of it. The corporation suffered its first…

— Joel Bakan

To achieve effectiveness and legitimacy it is time to scrap the right of veto given to permanent members of the UN, or…

— Richard A. Falk

The danger is not only that these austerity measures are killing the European economies but also that they threaten the very legitimacy…

— Ha-Joon Chang

Further, democratic negotiators, or foreign negotiation specialists accepted to assist in the negotiations, may in a single stroke provide the dictators with…

— Gene Sharp

“The so-called spiritual inquiry must necessarily address questions of authority and power since both individuals and the organizations that represent them generally…

— Daniel Waterman

Zionism is only around 100 years old. It is the transformation from religion to nationalism, to materialism created by non-religious Jews who…

— Yisroel Dovid Weiss

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

— Michael Ignatieff

The results have no relation to reality. We won't give legitimacy to something that is illegitimate.

— Ayman Nour

...nobody would think of asking the U.N. General Assembly what it thinks because it is dominated by nations with no power and…

— Dick Morris

An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign…

— Benjamin Tucker

As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not.

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

Democracy gives the aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be considered tyranny.

— Walter E. Williams

Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of…

— Ronald Reagan

The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or…

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

“Like how the government of General Abacha was using its foreign policy to legitimize itself in the eyes of other African countries.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice.

— Alan Ryan