What matters about people is their magnetic leadership, their aptitude for helping those following in their footsteps, and their passion - how they choose to package that is their prerogative.

There is no part of the executive branch that more exists on the outer edge of executive prerogative than the American intelligence community - the intelligence community, CIA, covert action. My literal responsibility as director of CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Congress - not to seek their approval, to inform.

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.

If someone doesn't like something, it's their prerogative not to like it. It's not possible to please everyone. That doesn't mean that I'm going to change my mental make-up. I follow my instinct.

Their mother is Athene, the Goddess of wisdom, and, although they are often ready to play the buffoon to amuse you, such conduct is the prerogative of the truly wise.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

Even if one is interested only in one's own society which is one's prerogative one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

The House of Lords an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.