“I have said consistently in my 16-and-a-half years in the parliament, I have always supported the party room's decision and the party room is the ultimate authority on these matters. I don't expect that to change.” YearsSaidMatterDecisionRoomsPartyHalfAuthorityUltimateConsistentlyParliamentHalf A Year Author:Nick Minchin
“The possible truths, hazily perceived in the world of abstraction, like those inferred from observation and experiment in the world of matter, are forced upon the profane multitudes, too busy to think for themselves, under the form of Divine revelation and scientific authority. But the same question stands open from the days of Socrates and Pilate down to our own age of wholesale negation: is there such a thing as absolute truth in the hands of any one party or man?” ThinkingMenWorldMatterHandsAgeSpiritualFormPartyDivineAuthorityAbsolutesBusyExperimentsObservationRevelationsMultitudesAbstractionToo BusyAbsolute TruthProfaneNegationWholesaleDivine Revelation Author:H. P. Blavatsky
“The States then being the parties to the constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity, that there can be no tribunal above their authority, to decide in the last resort, whether the compact made by them be violated; and consequently that as the parties to it, they must themselves decide in the last resort, such questions as may be of sufficient magnitude to require their interposition.” MayMadeStatesLastsPartyAuthorityCapacitySufficientSovereignResortsMagnitudeCompactTribunalsNullification Book:1829-1836 Source: 1829-1836
“I was never interested in the two-party system per se. I was interested in how authority was abused by government, and how lies were told, and rewritten, to seem to be true. I came up out of a tradition of radical journalism.” TwoSeemsGovernmentLyingPartyAuthorityTraditionBeing TrueJournalismRadicalTwo Party System Author:Jules Feiffer
“Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument.” PartySuccessfulCommunicationAuthorityArgument Author:Gerry Spence