Authority Gifts

Power: 'It's mine and you can't have it.'

Coming to a consensus.

"Sire. I fear that we shall have to turn back. He has a hi-vis vest and a road cone."

The boss is always right.

Continental marshal

'I can't prescribe anything for his midlife crisis but I know a high school principal who'll scare him out of it.'

Bureau of Disappearing Civil Liberties

'This is what happens when a bad boy goes good.'

'Honey, why do you always put me int he rear seat of you patrol car when you give me a lift home?'

"Ya gotta obey the rules otherwise there's anarchy!"

Trial by Media

"But can't I be feared and loved?"

Stop saying 'You're the boss' I KNOW I'm the boss!

Off Duty.

"Call me 'pops' one more time and I'll lace 'ya one!"

"What's on my schedule today, Fred?"

"Are you talking down to me, Evans? Because I don't like it when people talk down to me."

"Behold! I am God! I know all. Yet I'm constantly testing you even though I already know what you'll do. But I'll still punish you for the sins I planned for you to do. And you'll suffer in a fiery pit, tormented beyond imagining forever and ever and ever

"Recess is over, Your Honor."

'Something has spooked the prairie dogs.'

"Mom, Dad, this is Kevin, our new ombudsman."

"I like to keep things simple."

"I have a yes man, a fist bump man, and a can-I-get-an-Amen man."

'We don't believe your story: a wolf would never attack a sheep.'

"They're really more like a bucket list."

'If you're a public servant, what does that make ME?'

'The only exercise I believe in is the exercise of power.'

"To become a department manager you've got to radiate authority and self-confidence! Authority! Self-confidence!!! Got me??!"

'I can't help politicizing everything!'

"I hate it when his yes man is on vacation. I have to come here every day for two weeks and wag my tail nonstop."

'Your mum and I are thinking about giving your power of attorney...' - 'Yes! Yes! Yes! I'm rich! Rich!' - '...and now, strangely, I'm having second thoughts.'

Bill's new strap-on steer horns helped give him more clout at the office.

"It occurs to me, Engelhardt, that I've never truly tested the limits of my power."

'He's really OK, except for the power trips.'

'There's a car in my parking spot! Torch it!'