I break rules all the time.
Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.
If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.
I am insubordinate by nature. I can't help it.
My problem has always been with authority, and I'm sure if anybody understands that, it's people in uniform.
I was a real rebel. I got expelled.
I didn't care about anyone or listen to nobody, only my father or mother. I would fight my coaches and say: 'Who are you to scream or shout at me? Are you my dad? Talk to me normally.'
I am angry when I hear things like Cheney whispering into Bush's ear on the way to Obama's inauguration to ask him to pardon 'Scooter' Libby and not to 'leave a soldier on the battlefield'. What kind of metaphor is that for his petty partisan views, when you have men and women giving the ultimate sacrifice? I have nothing but contempt.
I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.
The insolence of office.
The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority.
