The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor. — John Engler Copy Share Image
I have a duty to protect the Executive Branch from legislative encroachment. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Serving in the executive branch is very different than sounding off from an academic perch. — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
As a member of Congress, I believe Congress must provide oversight of actions by the Executive Branch as our system of checks… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
No, if there is an aspect of the executive branch of the government that needs looking at, I'm liable to be called… — Bill Goldberg Copy Share Image
In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate. — Lincoln Chafee Copy Share Image
Love or hate the outcome of what Trump has decided to do, keeping or scrapping DACA is outside of his authority as… — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image
The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid. — Lyn Nofziger Copy Share Image
The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I think there's always a role for Congress under every instance in every administration to conduct oversight of the executive branch. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the… — Tom Rice Copy Share Image
The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The president and the executive branch are always going to have greater latitude and greater authority when it comes to protecting America… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is good to be back in the Peoples House. But this cannot be a real homecoming. Under the Constitution, I now… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
I'm used to being in the executive branch and getting things done. And not having to ask permission. In fact, that's why… — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
The time has passed in America when this party can be the party of compassion and let the executive branch run foreign… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
I do think it's true that a huge amount of the oversight that the White House engages in with respect to the… — Donald Verrilli Jr Copy Share Image
“if something happened and he wasn’t present, he didn’t care about it and barely recognized it. His response then was often just… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Presidents Lincoln, Jefferson, Jackson, presidents have understood that the Supreme Court cannot make a law. They cannot make it. The legislature has… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
“As a dad, you are Vice President. You are part of the Executive Branch of the family, but you are the partner… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“In Maya’s group, the “executive branch,” everyone is talking at once. Maya hangs back. Samantha, tall and plump in a purple T-shirt,… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Humphrey was to say, and now he was planning to continue doing so, to use the chairmanship, in Humphrey’s words, “to hang… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I watched helplessly as the Bush administration led America into a… — Ricardo Sanchez Copy Share Image
“As a federal district court in Texas recently ruled, federal law “mandates the initiation of immigration removal proceedings whenever an immigration officer… — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image
The Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
One of the great things about the United States is that when it comes to world affairs, the president obviously is the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“What about the role of the CIA in a democratic society? Is that an oxymoron? You could imagine a democratic society with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“...the Constitution is an invitation for the president and Congress to struggle for the privilege of directing foreign policy. Although the president… — Lee H. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Each of these interlocutors provided Kushner with something of a tutorial on the limitations of presidential power—that Washington was as much designed… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Early on, before getting down to attacking each other, Bannon and Kushner were united in their separate offensives against Priebus. Kushner’s preferred… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“One more thing, gentlemen, before I quit. Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase that the Yankees… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“One more thing, gentlemen, before I quit. Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase that the Yankees… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Article II creates an office, President of the United States, that remains a kind of inkblot onto which generations of Americans have… — Garrett Epps Copy Share Image
“One more thing, gentlemen, before I quit. Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase that the Yankees… — Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird Copy Share Image
“Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we've had probably in American history. The idea he doesn't realize that… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
I think there's even a chance that [R&D and innovation budgets] might be increased [during Donald Trump Administration] and we should go… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Everything is about accountability to the American people, accountability of the executive branch ... [and] accountability of the oversight of the Congress — Jay Rockefeller Copy Share Image
“It was one thing for the country and much of the executive branch of government not to feel involved in the war,… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
![“Humphrey was to say, and now he was planning to continue doing so, to use the chairmanship, in Humphrey’s words, “to hang on to [the power] he had wielded as Majority Leader” as a “de facto Majority Leader”; Johnson “had the illusions that he could be in a sense, as Vice President, the Majority…” quote by Robert A. Caro](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d29/robert-a-caro-15999_executive-branch_humphrey-was-to-say-and-now-he-was-plann_1978726.jpg)
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