Quotes of: Chief-executive Keyword

Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or the seasons.

Chief Seattle

Why don't you talk, and go straight, and let all be well?

Black Kettle

The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.

Sam Ervin

Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.

Charles Krauthammer

I thought they know that I was the Commander in Chief, not that I know that I am the Commander in Chief, and they should behave; know how to behave to the Commander in Chief.

Kamisese Mara

Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.

Sitting Bull

This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.

Sitting Bull

I will burn your city, your land, your self.

Hulagu Khan

I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.

Sitting Bull

Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.

Oliver Cromwell

The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love.

Sitting Bull

My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain...There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness o...

The Chief Seattle's Speech

Chief Superintendent Arnot might hold power, but Armand Gamache was the more powerful man.

How The Light Gets In: Chief Inspector Gamache 09

Chief Scientist: I agree with those who say we could launch a pod. Lyndon Johnson: A pot? Chief Scientist: A POD - a, uh, capsule. Now, we would be in full control of zis pod. It vill go up like a cannonball, and come down like, uh, a cannonball, spl...

The Right Stuff

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires.

Sitting Bull

In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.

Sitting Bull

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.

Sitting Bull

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.

Sitting Bull

'Rabbi' means 'teacher,' and I see the role of chief rabbi as chief teacher.

Ephraim Mirvis

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

Sitting Bull

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government.

Joseph Story