Quotes of: Chief-executive Keyword

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

George S. Patton

No, if there is an aspect of the executive branch of the government that needs looking at, I'm liable to be called in to look at it. But I'm not the only one.

Bill Goldberg

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

Garet Garrett

Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

Garet Garrett

During the Koizumi administration, I served as the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary as well as the Chief Cabinet Secretary.

Shinzo Abe

Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.

Hu Shih

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

Charles de Montesquieu

Chief Insp. Hubbard: Good morning, Sir. I'm Chief Inspector Hubbard, in charge of criminal investigation of this division. Tony Wendice: Oh, I think we gave your sergeant all the necessary information. Chief Insp. Hubbard: Yes, I've seen his report o...

Dial M for Murder

Chief Inspector Uhl: As you know... we some times follow Duchess Von Teschen for her protection... Yesterday she was seen in the company of another man... Crown Prince Leopold: What man? Chief Inspector Uhl: Eisenheim, the illusionist. Crown Prince L...

The Illusionist

You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too.

American

It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted.

Lysander Spooner

For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.

Letitia Baldrige

As a rule of thumb, it was always safer if the Commander-in-Chief formulated a risky plan.

Forced Mate

My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.

Robert E. Lee

When I was growing up, my white friends would call me: 'Hey, Chief!' Even when I go to work now, people call me 'Chief.'

Adam Beach

Tony Wendice: What makes you think he came in by this door? Chief Insp. Hubbard: His shoes. Tony Wendice: His shoes? Chief Insp. Hubbard: The ground was soaking wet last night. If he'd come in by the garden, he'd have left mud all over the carpet. As...

Dial M for Murder

Crown Prince Leopold: You're late. Chief Inspector Uhl: My apologies, your Highness. I was attending to loose ends of the case. Crown Prince Leopold: Are there still loose ends? Chief Inspector Uhl: Very few. Crown Prince Leopold: Did he do it again?...

The Illusionist

Chief of Staff Hayden Sinclair: Southern China? We've never even admitted we sent troops into China. General Hummel: Who is this? Identify yourself! Chief of Staff Hayden Sinclair: White House Chief of Staff Hayden Sinclair, General. General Hummel: ...

The Rock

Michael Taylor is not being executed for homicide. Michael Taylor is being executed for raping a white female.

John Simon

Strategy is 5 percent thinking, 95 percent execution. And strategy execution is 5 percent technical, 95 percent people-related.

Work

[after Chief Gillespie convinced Virgil Tibbs to stay in town and finish the investigation, they both go to a mechanic's place to get Tibbs a car] Chief Gillespie: Jess. [Jess, a black mechanic, appears from under the car he is working on] Chief Gill...

In the Heat of the Night