When we visited with legislative counsel, they told us…

The House of Representatives provides a special, nonpartisan staff of lawyers, called Legislative Counsel, who are experts in various areas of the law.

— Jared Polis

The Constitution is the origin and measure of legislative authority. It says to legislators, thus far ye shall go and no farther. Not a…

— William Paterson

Border security is a complex issue and will remain a top priority during the 2007 legislative year. As Congress works to fix this problem,…

— Randy Neugebauer

Legislative language is governed by a law of etymology that is also the ancient code of the bureaucracy: It doesn't have to be right,…

— Molly Ivins

There's a lot of bipartisan rancor, a lot of excessive delegation of legislative power from the legislative branch to the executive branch.

— Mike Lee

I've been in the legislative branch and now the executive branch and in each case I felt it was important we use our constitutional…

— John Engler

I am one who believes that the people's views and values are represented by those who they elect in the legislative branch and not…

— George Allen

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for…

— George Washington

Nothing in the 14th Amendment or in any other constitutional provision suggests that the president may usurp legislative power to prevent a violation of…

— Laurence Tribe

A World Parliamentary Assembly functioning outside the United Nations, or a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly set up as a subsidiary body of the General…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those refinements which owe their…

— Alexander Hamilton

I have a duty to protect the Executive Branch from legislative encroachment.

— George W. Bush

It is one thing to be subordinate to the laws, and another [for the Executive] to be dependent on the legislative body. The first…

— Alexander Hamilton

Others will have opinions on how I do and that's just fine... I've been elected four times, delivered results for my constituents and delivered…

— Pierre Poilievre

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed,…

— James Madison