Top 40 Chiefs Quotes

Police chiefs know a thing or two about public safety.

Big-city police chiefs feel more pressure from race activists than from the hard-working residents of high-crime areas, who fiercely want more policing but have no spokesmen to defend their interests.

One of the hardest things I do as FBI Director is call the chiefs and sheriffs in departments around the nation when officers have been killed in the line of duty. I call to express my sorrow and offer the FBI’s help.

I’m a Kansas City kid, so I love my Royals and Chiefs. I went to the University of Kansas, so I love the Jayhawks. But I live in L.A., so I’m a fan of the Dodgers.

The hardest thing for me was just getting crew chiefs and people to believe in me.

My dad was stationed at the Pentagon when I was like middle-school age. He was support for the Joint Chiefs of Staff; his boss was Colin Powell.

Especially in the whip operation, you’re in constant contact with the members and their chiefs of staff, so having a chief who’s approachable and reaches out to other chiefs so people know what’s going – know what they’re looking for in the policy that comes to the House floor – is incredibly important.

My first season with Pittsburgh was 1969. We were still in the old NFL. My second year, we moved to the AFC when the leagues merged. I went to the Pro Bowl that season, and there must have been nine Raiders and nine Chiefs. I got to know all those guys.

Jamaal Charles is one of the finest running backs that’s ever put on a Kansas City Chiefs uniform.

The whole structure of African government, as far back as we know, was based on tyranny. One guy ran the show. Chiefs like Chaka and Mzilikazi committed terrible atrocities. That is the tradition from which modern African rulers spring. It won’t change easily overnight.

With the Chiefs, you can’t live in Kansas City and not like the Chiefs. To go catch a game at Arrowhead is a pretty great experience. I haven’t had the chance to go to games anywhere else, but, from what I’m told, I don’t really need to.

At first when I first went to the Chiefs, there was a huge transition from what we had done in New England to a team that was rebuilding.

The role of a modern studio chief is much different to how the old studio chiefs used to operate. It’s not so much a position of power anymore, but a position of influence.

I spent a majority of my life in Kansas City, so I am a Chiefs and Royals guy. I used to work for the Royals for like five years in the suites department and in the stadium club restaurant.

When you play the Oakland Raiders when you’re the Kansas City Chiefs, you know they’re going to come out with that mentality that they’re going to win. They’re going to come out fighting. It’s a rivalry game.

Do I think police chiefs, many of which are African-American or Hispanic, wake up and say, ‘Let’s systemically oppress African-American communities?’ No, I don’t. Are there instances in which that happens? I’m sure there are.

Since my residence at Tippecanoe, we have endeavored to level all distinctions, to destroy village chiefs, by whom all mischiefs are done. It is they who sell the land to the Americans.

Many chiefs of staff are close, very close, to their bosses on Capitol Hill.

The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance.

Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations.

The name is Irish-Gaelic. In old Ireland, the Rabbitts were counselors to the chiefs.

The Killers and Kaiser Chiefs are great for exercise.

I’m so proud to have been a part of the Chiefs for 12 seasons and will always feel like a part of their family.

All the other chiefs and tribes have accepted the Great Law of Peace. They now live in peace with one another.

The thought of losing Ted Stevens, a man who was known to business and community leaders, Native chiefs and everyday Alaskans as Uncle Ted, is too difficult to fathom. He truly was the greatest of the Greatest Generation.

I just want to be really clear about this: Anyone who has read Colin Powell’s biography – there’s an entire section where he talks about experiencing segregation. Colin Powell did not appear when he became head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That’s not how it happened.

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain’s chair.

Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or had to beat the Raiders in the playoffs. The Jets, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Baltimore Colts, Miami, the Steelers each of the first two times… we all had to deal with the Raiders.

The Daytona 500 is a career-winning race. It defines careers for drivers, crew members, crew chiefs and race teams. It has that power.

Able Danger was a top-secret military planning operation, established in ’99 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to identify cells of al-Qaida worldwide and to take out al Qaida terrorists. They identified five cells worldwide, one of them in Brooklyn.

I like being… in Kansas City. People are extremely nice, extremely passionate about the Chiefs.

You want to be drafted high, but to be drafted high into an organization like the Kansas City Chiefs, it’s like a dream to me.

I lived in New York for 10 years; I followed the Rangers. Now I live in L.A. I want to adopt a team. I’m always going to be a Kansas City Chiefs and Royals fan. I want to adopt a team in a new town, so I’ve adopted the Kings.

If I was in office, I’d get together all the chiefs and all the heads and chiefs of staffs of all the countries and explain to them like, ‘This is how it’s going to be. We need y’all oil and water. Y’all need our money and technology. Now, what y’all gon’ do?’

One of the biggest reasons entrepreneurs don’t succeed is because they have too many chiefs. You’ve got to bring in the right people to make the right decisions.

Look, here’s the deal: The Chiefs’ fate and the Royals’ fate, that’s my fate.

The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive work. In a sense, the mission chiefs were given the opportunity to help act as architects for the new Europe that was envisioned.

It’s pretty cool just to see the support we have. It’s unmatched, Kansas City and the Chiefs Kingdom, the support they have for us. For me to just kind of be in the community and see those people is always a good thing.

You get to really master the emotion of humility as a Chiefs fan.