This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances. — Gracie Allen Copy Share Image
“Such a system of checks and balances -- parenting -- of projections and guesswork and cost-benefit ratios.” — Gin Phillips Copy Share Image
On form of government, there should be checks and balances, and PM should be responsible to Parliament. — Sushil Koirala Copy Share Image
The BJP must nurture the institutions that put credible checks and balances in place. — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
Our system of checks and balances requires policymakers to have accurate information about government actions. — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
When I get on top of somebody, I don't have to do all the other little checks and balances guys in other… — Curtis Blaydes Copy Share Image
Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality. — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
As a member of Congress, I believe Congress must provide oversight of actions by the Executive Branch as our system of checks… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
Politicians, in many cases - their moral code will be dictated by what can get them reelected, what they can get away… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Congress's oversight authority is derived from its implied powers in the Constitution, making it an integral part of the American system of… — Dean Phillips Copy Share Image
I think, with the administration they do Constitutionally-mandated things most of the time, but they don't - they fulfill the letter of… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“The genius of the American system is not freedom; the genius of the American system is checks and balances. Nobody gets all… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Who needs checks and balances when the left, seemingly, knows and can decide right from wrong? When the left can decide what… — Trish Regan Copy Share Image
“Of course we can establish constitutional checks and balances, but those won’t mean a thing unless citizens make sure the safeguards are… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Why can't Google, which likes to see itself as a 'Don't Be Evil' benevolent force in society, just write us a big… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Do I think that American democracy ends if Trump is president? No! I think, there are plenty of checks and balances in… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The United States compared to a number of our competitors is the only government in the world with any kind of safeguards,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
It is science that brings us an understanding of the true complexity of natural systems. The insights from the science of ecology… — Jamie Goode Copy Share Image
Much of the world today, including the United States, is still living in the social, cultural, and political aftermath of Britain's cultural… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I think it's something that the citizenry needs to be vigilant about - participating in democracy, and that includes issues like what's… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
“The odd American idea that giving money to political campaigns is free speech means that the very rich have far more speech,… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The fundamental idea is that through the separation of powers and checks and balances, different voices—those of the President, the Senate, and… — Thomas O. Sargentich Copy Share Image
Early on, America took one path and went down the advertising road, and in the UK they founded the BBC and developed… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
The creative process ignites our imagination, and I believe that that same imagination is what will propel us forward with issues of… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I believe that the power to declare war is most important in limiting the powers of the national government in regard to… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
“Our disenchantment of the night through artificial lighting may appear, if it is noticed at all, as a regrettable but eventually trivial… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
We've been taught, "Deny yourself pleasure." But moderation is harder because it requires really committing to balance. When I tell my trainer… — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image
“But Muslims now find themselves in a world shaped by western theories and western values. If we are to consider how Islamic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This system is called the " system of checks and balances," because each department of the government is supposed to be a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Authorities this broad give the national security bureaucracy the power to scrutinize the personal lives of every law-abiding American. Allowing that to… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
“Because by definition they lack any such sense of mutuality or wholeness, our specializations subsist on conflict with one another. The rule… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
What is happening here is there are too many checks and balances that are happening. There are too many people involved who… — Zayed Khan Copy Share Image
I think it's a very powerful notion, the notion that our personal views, although closely held, are not necessarily right. That part… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
“A president of dictatorial persuasion who coopts the media in his disregard for the system’s checks and balances is nigh impossible to… — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image
