While there have been improvements in the past year, clearly the transit authority still has a long way to go.

As written, the voters will not have any authority over decisions like those made by past City Councils to shortchange the pension system.

It is therefore high time that we learned from past mistakes and used our considerable moral authority on the question of nuclear disarmament for the greater good of international peace and stability, rather than simply protecting at any cost an increasingly dangerous actor on the international stage.

The art of the past no longer exists as it once did. Its authority is lost. In its place there is a language of images. What matters now is who uses that language for what purpose.

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest