“Jefferson was ambivalent about executive power – until he bore executive responsibility.” — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau Copy Share Image
Civilization has developed executive powers far beyond its understanding. — Maude Meagher Copy Share Image
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. — Graham Chapman Copy Share Image
Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold. — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
“Only a free press could check abuses of executive power, Hamilton asserted.” — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A representative assembly, although extremely well qualified, and absolutely necessary, as a branch of the legislative, is unfit to exercise the executive… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Dennis: Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.” — Dennis Copy Share Image
To me, Los Angeles and California and executive power are about big, open warehouse buildings. Tech companies are buying oversized buildings, because… — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share Image
Executive power is exercised by the President of the Governing Board who, with the title of President of the Republic of Chile,… — Augusto Pinochet Copy Share Image
I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory.… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. I will have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
President Clinton invoked executive power a bunch of times... I think once he started doing that, the courts really pushed back on… — Neal Katyal Copy Share Image
Under Article II, all executive power is vested in one president of the United States. The regulatory state is Congress's efforts to… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
I am committed against every thing which in my judgment, may weaken, endanger, or destroy (the Constitution) ... and especially against all… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
There is also the issue of personal privacy when it comes the executive power. Throughout our nation's history, whether it was habeas… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
“Executive power thus could be exercised adjacent to legislation without actually trespassing on legislative power. The executive, for example, could make regulations… — Philip Hamburger Copy Share Image
Modern Democrats aren't the first political party to abuse power - far from it. Obama isn'€™t the first president to abuse executive… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
That the legislative and executive powers of the State should be separate and distinct from the judiciary; and that the members of… — George Mason Copy Share Image
When a monarchy gradually transforms itself into a republic, the executive power there preserves titles, honors, respect, and even money long after… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Article 73 of the Constitution clearly stipulates that, subject to the Constitution, the executive power of the union shall extend to matters… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
The constitution has divided the powers of government into three branches, Legislative, Executive and Judiciary, lodging each with a distinct magistracy. The… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As presidential authority expands, and the role of Congress diminishes, the American people continue to lose control over their government. Today's assertions… — Mickey Edwards Copy Share Image
The 16th Amendment corroded the American concept of natural rights; ultimately reduced the American citizen to a status of subject, so much… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
What Obama did wrong with executive power is he tried to change the law. He tried to ignore the law. And under… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand… — Jim Gilmore Copy Share Image
Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
[T]hough individual oppression may now and then proceed fro the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Presidential powers are not exercised by a body or group. The Constitution vests 'all executive power' in one and only one person… — William Barr Copy Share Image
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