I do not believe that the founding fathers intended for a…

Our carefully constructed system of checks and balances is being negated by the rise of a fourth branch, an administrative state of sprawling departments…

— Jonathan Turley

It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“It is clear from the writings of our founding fathers that they disagreed with such excessive taxation to redistribute wealth. In the Annals of…

— Ben Carson

“Our founding fathers placed so much emphasis on nurturing a well-educated populace because they knew that our system of democracy could not long survive…

— Ben Carson

“What a place! What a situation! What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart…

— Terry Pratchett

Traditionally, in America, we have accountability as kind of a key feature of each branch of government in some way. So, you know, you…

— Neal Katyal

I think the Supreme Court has, as an equal branch of government, the ability to overrule Congress and the president. But I also feel…

— Rick Santorum

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning…

— Richard M. Nixon

One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire government just…

— Barack Obama

Congress is a co-equal branch of government, with a long and rich history of standing up to the executive branch.

— Charlie Sykes

Congress is the third branch of government... which makes every one of the 535 members of Congress 1/535th of that important one-third, which works…

— Wesley Pruden

I'm seeing too much power being concentrated in the executive branch, and so our system of government is really in jeopardy, and more importantly,…

— Ana Kasparian

[The judiciary is] the least dangerous branch of our government.

— Alexander Bickel

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision.

— Byron White

[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch…

— Thomas Jefferson