Prerogatives Quotes

We need to work through this with the Republican conference first... A lot of us have approached leadership and asked them to find a way to have this hearing without jeopardizing Senator Helms' prerogatives and feelings. - Gordon Smith

We have to respect the prerogatives of Congress but we are suggesting India-specific amendments to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. - Nicholas Burns

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives. - Charles Lamb

This is not about my prerogatives and absolutely not about me as a person... It is about my party's prerogative for political leadership and only the party leaders can decide on that. I will accept any decision. I do not want to stand in the way of a development that allows the continuation of the (economic) reforms I initiated and the formation of a stable government in Germany. - Gerhard Schroeder

This I not exactly what emerges from the reports of the (U.N. weapons inspection) commission, and I wonder whether he is not over-stepping his prerogatives. - Hubert Vedrine

There will be no whitewash in the investigation and we shall insist on our sovereign prerogatives. - Ignacio Bunye

There is no better way of protecting his prerogatives in those areas than by naming someone who is first and foremost a loyalist and secondly an ideologue. - William Marshall

The Supreme Court of the United States is hereby commanded to try Andrew Johnson for usurpation of our Imperial authority and prerogatives, and if found guilty, behead him or send him here to black the Emperor's boots. - Joshua A. Norton

The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one. - Charles Dickens