Not much good for sportsmen, non but brilliant for me! Ha Ha!\\

The crowd loved it, well they had to or I would have had them stabbed! OK?!"''

Not much good for sportsmen, non but brilliant for me! HaHa!\\

- ->- -'''Rebecca Solnit''', [[https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/06/trump-mob-storm-capitol-washington-coup-attempt “Call It What It Was:A Coup Attempt”]], ''The Guardian''

->"We can cheat, why? Cause it's my show!"

'''Darth Sidious''': I AM the Senate!

->"To have 'the powers that be' speak to you directly, and it be as you feared...To have very powerful figures look at you in the eye and say'“You’re right in what you’re saying, but [[MakeAnExampleOfThem we’re going to crunch you anyway.]]'"

-->-- ''Literature/MakingMoney''

[[AC: Anime and Manga]]

[[AC:Comic Books]]

->''Corporate terrorism? Deepscan can't be a part of this...we run this under the radar. Everything goes through me. So tell me Theo, where are the servers we need to fry?''
-->--'''Kennedy''', ''ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''

[[AC:Fan Works]]
-> '''Angus:''' You could run a regular reaping instead, maybe. Or, well an irregular one, bein' as it's the Quell, so you could make your own rules.
-> '''President Snow:''' I do make my own rules.
-->--[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10411610/6/The-End-is-the-Beginning-is-the-End-The-Quarter-Quell The End is the Beginning is the End: The Quarter Quell]] from the ''Fanfic/WeMustBeKillers'' series
[[AC:Film -- Animated]]

->I'm the king, I can do whatever I want!

->She only makes the rules so she can break them!

[[AC:Film -- Live-Action]]

->''"But nobody's gonna hang us for treason. We do the hanging."''

->''”I can do anything, I’m the chief of police.”''

->'''Nute Gunray''': My lord! Is that ... legal?\\

'''Aldo''': Then why...?\\
'''Virgil''': (interrupting) Aldo, if a King forbids his subjects to wear a crown, that doesn't mean he can't wear one himself.

[[AC:Literature]]

-> "The last great battle," said [[OmnicidalManiac the Queen]], "raged for three days here in Charn itself. For three days I looked down upon it from this very spot. I did not use my power till the last of my soldiers had fallen, and the accursed woman, my sister, at the head of her rebels was halfway up those great stairs that lead up from the city to the terrace. Then I waited till we were so close that we could see one another's faces. She flashed her horrible, wicked eyes upon me and said, 'Victory.' 'Yes,' said I, 'Victory, but not yours.' Then I spoke [[FantasticNuke the Deplorable Word]]. A moment later [[ApocalypseHow I was the only living thing beneath the sun]]."\\
"But the people?" gasped Digory.\\
"What people, boy?" asked the Queen.\\
"All the ordinary people," said Polly, "who'd never done you any harm. And the women, and the children, and the animals."\\
"Don't you understand?" said the Queen (still speaking to Digory). "I was the Queen. They were all ''my'' people. What else were they there for but to do my will?"\\
"It was rather hard luck on them, all the same," said he.\\
"I had forgotten that you are only a common boy. How should you understand reasons of State? You must learn, child, that [[AboveGoodAndEvil what would be wrong for you or for any of the common people is not wrong in a great Queen such as I. The weight of the world is on our shoulders. We must be freed from all rules.]] [[LonelyAtTheTop Ours is a high and lonely destiny.]]"

->'''[[spoiler:[[CorruptCorporateExecutive Greenyham]]]]:''' You can't do that!\\

->'''Tarkis Blaylock:''' You cannot let this deception go unpunished, archmagos!
->'''Lexell Kotov:''' What deception, Tarkis? ''(shows him a readout)''
->'''Blaylock:''' No…
->'''Kotov:''' As soon as I saw that Captain Surcouf’s Marque was a forgery, I knew I had to ratify it immediately. The expedition’s manifest was to be entered in Martian Records, and the Montes Analyticae would spot the discrepancy long before the fleet was ready to depart.
->'''Blaylock:''' You falsified the records.
->'''Kotov:''' I amended them. Mister Surcouf’s physical Letter of Marque may be counterfeit, but so far as Imperial records are concerned, he is a legitimate Rogue Trader, and has been since his arrival on Anohkin.
->'''Blaylock:''' This is outrageous. You cannot do this.
->'''Kotov:''' I am an archmagos of the Adeptus Mechanicus. I can do whatever I want.

[[AC:Live-Action TV]]

->'''Cap. Sheridan''': "Diplomatic immunity" only applies when the subject is charged with a crime; so far, Mr. Morden hasn't been charged. We're holding him in, uh, ''protective'' custody.\\

'''Sheridan''': [[MovingTheGoalposts I haven't decided yet.]] Good day, Mr. Cotto.

->There are laws. There are laws of Time, and once upon a time there were people in charge of those laws, but they died. They all died. Do you know who that leaves? ''[[LastOfHisKind Me!]]'' It's taken me all these years to realize the Laws of Time are mine, and ''they will obey me!''
-->-- '''The Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho''

->How do you plan to implement this "protocol", Doctor? Mister Tuvok doesn't have a security team. Both the brigs have been destroyed. And with the internal forcefields offline, you'll have a hell of a time keeping ''me'' confined. You'd better grab a phaser, because before I give up command you'll have to shoot me.
-->--'''Cap. Janeway''', ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Year of Hell Pt. 2"

->''THE KING CAN DO AS HE LIKES!''
-->--'''[[TheCaligula King Joffrey Baratheon]]''', ''Series/GameOfThrones''

'''Doctor:''' You don't need to be liked. [[DoesntLikeGuns You've got all the guns]].
-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "Into the Dalek"

->"Fairness" is such a human concept. Think imaginatively! This game shall, in fact, be... ''[[LargeHam completely unfair]]''!"
-->-- '''Q''', ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "Hide and Q"

->''"Fuck the rules, I'm in charge."''

[[AC:Music]]

->''"I'm the new folk hero of the Ku Klux Klan\\

You can get away with murder if you've got a badge\\
I fought the law and I won, I fought the law and I won\\
I fought the law and I won\\
I ''am'' the law so I won"''

->"Genocide?\\

I am the law! We burn!"

[[AC:Stand-up Comedy]]

->I just bought a 2-bedroom house, but I think I get to decide how many bedrooms there are, don't you? "Fuck you, real estate lady! This bedroom has an oven in it! This bedroom's got a lot of people sitting around watching TV. This bedroom's over in that guy's house! Sir, you have one of my bedrooms, are you aware? Don't decorate it!"

[[AC:Tabletop Games]]

->It is [[LadyOfBlackMagic Morathi]] and Morathi alone of the [[AmazonBrigade Witch Elves]] who is allowed to wield magical power; [[LikeFatherLikeSon like her]] [[SorcerousOverlord son]], Morathi feels no shame in creating laws and traditions for the control of others, whilst ignoring them herself.

[[AC:Video Games]]

->They're telling me I oughta stop making these pre-recorded messages. That gave me an idea: make '''more'''' pre-recorded messages! I pay the bills around here, I can talk about the control group all damn day!

->When due process fails us, we really do live in a world of terror.

->We can shit on you from so high up, you'll think God himself took a dump on you.

->'''Ocelot''': I don't approve of your methods!\\

* ''[[UseYourHead Headbutt]]''*\\
'''Urdnot Wrex:''' [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority Speak when spoken to, Uvenk]]. I'll drag your clan to glory whether it likes it or not.

-> Did you know that, legally speaking, my word is the same as [[TheDragon Tunon]]'s word unless [Tunon] contradicts my word as Fatebinder? Rhogalus says the legal term for that is Proxy Decisis. Calio says the legal term is "fuck you, I'm the law".

->'''Arfoire:''' I-I no longer have any will to fight you! Aren't you a CPU?! As a CPU, you should treat prisoners according to the law!\\

[[AC:Web Original]]

[[AC:Western Animation]]

->'''Dr. Robotnik:''' I was bamboozled by Sonic! And it's all your fault!\\
'''Coconuts:''' What are you talkin' about? I wasn't even there!\\
'''Dr. Robotnik:''' SHUT UP! ''I'm'' the boss! I can blame ''whoever I want!''
-->--''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' ("Full Tilt Tails")

->'''Princess Celestia:''' Hold on, please! I'm sure Princess Twilight Sparkle has a good explanation for all of this.\\
'''Twilight Sparkle:''' I do! It's true that my School of Friendship is EEA unaccredited...\\
'''Spike:''' Look! She said it without doing the eye thing!\\
'''Chancellor Neighsay:''' Then it is not a school!\\
'''Twilight Sparkle:''' It's not an EEA school! It's a ''friendship'' school! With its ''own'' rules! I should know; ''I'' wrote the book!
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''
[[AC:Webcomics]]

[[AC:Real Life]]

->L'état? C'est moi!

->It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

->The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the Bill of Rights.

->The illegal we do at once; the unconstitutional takes a little longer.

->I'm the president, and you're not.

->Screw State! State's always on the side of [[RacistGrandma the blacks]]. The hell with them!

->My library is filled with UN condemnations.

->By definition, as a Prime Minister I cannot be a liar.
-->--'''Silvio Berlusconi''', 1.18.06

->I ''am'' the Federal Government.
-->--'''Tom [=DeLay=]''', when asked to put out his cigar in a restaurant

->To have “the powers that be” speak to you directly, and it be as you feared...To have very powerful figures look at you in the eye and say “You’re right in what you’re saying, but [[MakeAnExampleOfThem we’re going to crunch you anyway.]]"

->Essentially, while I am allowed to exaggerate for comic effect, I am not allowed actively to lie. And it struck me as strange, as I watched the eggs rain down on Conservatives this month, that my standup comedian’s lowly standup comedy routines are held accountable to higher legal standards of truth and decency than, for example, [[UsefulNotes/DavidCameron a prime minister’s]] conference speech.

->I had a little concern about [[ViceCity the adjacent nightlife]], and he [Mayor Giuliani] looked me in the eye and he said, 'It’ll be gone,' and I said, 'uh, Mr. Mayor, you know there is the American Civil Liberties Union, and I mean, they’re just not gone.'\\\

''(shrugs)'' Scared ''me''.