I think having a visionary CEO is awesome, and visionary leadership is one thing, but you also need checks and balances on… — Julia Hartz Copy Share Image
Society has to be structured such that there are checks and balances, so that it can't be manipulated, for instance, for the… — Greg Graffin 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
What we can do where we live is advocate again to bring back to life the 10th Amendment, to bring back to… — Ken Cuccinelli 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
Our carefully constructed system of checks and balances is being negated by the rise of a fourth branch, an administrative state of… — Jonathan Turley 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
It's precisely because America is not a democracy that we have survived! It's precisely because majority rule does have checks and balances… — Rush Limbaugh 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
“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
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It is hard for us to admit we have a sin nature because we live in this system of checks and balances.… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events… — Timothy Snyder 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
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 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
In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts,… — Dennis Cardoza Copy Share Image
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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
You can harvest any data that you want, on anybody. You can infer any data that you like, and you can use… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
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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
“A political system that is all checks and balances is potentially no more successful than one with no checks, because governments periodically… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
Under the president's spying program, there are no checks and balances. There is no outside review of the legality of this brazen… — Samuel Alito 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
“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
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
There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks… — Jonathan Shapiro 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
There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of the State, i.e. the legislature, the… — P. Sathasivam Copy Share Image
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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
One of the things that happens that's challenging within the democratic process is that people say, 'Look at this failure, so we… — Reid Hoffman 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'll always understand the Schadenfreude aspect to short-selling. I get that no one will always like it. I'm also convinced to the… — James Chanos Copy Share Image
Nature has introduced great variety into the landscape, but man has displayed a passion for simplifying it. Thus he undoes the built-in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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