There is no reason to have problems between country and…

What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also the independence…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

Reagan used to say that 'we're a country with a government.' Well, now we're a government with a country, and we're making everybody else…

— William Binney

I sometimes think that when he was at Harvard Law School, Mr. Obama cut class the day they got to the separation of powers,…

— George Will

The bedrock principle of separation of powers ought to be upheld regardless of the (D) or (R) that rests behind a given president's name.

— Kayleigh McEnany

The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a…

— Roy Moore

“The political liberty, of the subject, (separation of powers), is a tranquility of mind arising from the opinion each person has of [their] safety.…

— Baron de Montesquieu

Our political organization, based as it is on an eighteenth-century separation of powers and on a nineteenth-century nationalist state, is generally recognized to be…

— Carroll Quigley

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

“In any event, one must consider the broader implications of a frontal assault on the separation of powers as outdated, ineffective, and unaccountable. The…

— Thomas O. Sargentich

“In a recurring theme among progressives, Croly condemned the Constitution’s separation of powers, a doctrine essential to averting centralized tyranny, as the main obstacle…

— Mark R. Levin

I believe that the power to declare war is most important in limiting the powers of the national government in regard to the rights…

— John Yoo

The Supreme Court is the last line of defense for the separation of powers and for the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution.

— Brett Kavanaugh

I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power…

— Dana Rohrabacher

It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the…

— Robert Byrd

I believe in the separation of powers. If a judge crosses the line between interpreting and making the law, he has crossed the line…

— Orrin Hatch