We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision. — Byron White Copy Share Image
It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government. — Todd Akin Copy Share Image
All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
Thank God for the founding fathers, who set up three separate branches of government. And the media acting as the Fourth Estate. — Andre Carson Copy Share Image
The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken. — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You know, when you get to the New World and you develop your three branches of government and you have a civil… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The President's pre-1776 mentality is hurting America and fracturing the foundation on which our country has stood for 230 years. The President… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
Supreme Court nominees should be individuals who not only understand, but truly respect the equal roles and responsibilities of different branches of… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
I think Donald Trump understands there's a Constitution. And that those separate but equal branches of government give us a limited government.… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
For students, understanding the separate and unique functions of each branch of government can help them understand how different kinds of government… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
Under our system of three branches of government, the courts ultimately are the checks on the legislative and executive branches when they… — Nina Totenberg Copy Share Image
A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are sworn to uphold the Constitution and law. And it has to be consistent and agreed upon with three branches of… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
We've never had our injustices rectified from the top, from the president or Congress, or the Supreme Court, no matter what we… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The three branches of government number considerably more than three and are not, in any sense, 'branches' since that would imply that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The Government covers their own ass from things they fail to do to protect its own people from corporations that control the… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
The dignity and stability of government in all its branches, the morals of the people, and every blessing of society depend so… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Congress is the third branch of government... which makes every one of the 535 members of Congress 1/535th of that important one-third,… — Wesley Pruden 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
If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order — preferably a system of… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding… — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
The federal judiciary is unlike the other branches of government. And once confirmed, a federal judge serves for life. And there's no… — Patrick Leahy Copy Share Image
If you want to right-size executive power relative to the other branches of government, the best way to do that is to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government. — Edwin Meese Copy Share Image
Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a… — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The thing I'd want people to say about me is that, in some way, I helped bring the Senate and the Congress… — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
As the people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I think the Supreme Court has, as an equal branch of government, the ability to overrule Congress and the president. But I… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
To be true to its constitutional role, the Supreme Court should refuse to be drawn into making public policy, and it should… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
I'm looking for a Justice who appreciates the awesome responsibility that she will be given, if confirmed. A Justice who understands the… — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
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