The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor. — John Engler Copy Share Image
I have a duty to protect the Executive Branch from legislative encroachment. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Serving in the executive branch is very different than sounding off from an academic perch. — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
Love or hate the outcome of what Trump has decided to do, keeping or scrapping DACA is outside of his authority as… — Katie Pavlich 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
The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid. — Lyn Nofziger Copy Share Image
I think there's always a role for Congress under every instance in every administration to conduct oversight of the executive branch. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the… — Tom Rice Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is speaking on behalf of the White House, of the executive branch of the United States. Credibility matters. — Jonathan Karl Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court must serve as an independent check on abuses by the executive branch and the protector of our liberties, not… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Everything is about accountability to the American people, accountability of the executive branch ... [and] accountability of the oversight of the Congress — Jay Rockefeller Copy Share Image
The president and the executive branch are always going to have greater latitude and greater authority when it comes to protecting America… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Presidents Lincoln, Jefferson, Jackson, presidents have understood that the Supreme Court cannot make a law. They cannot make it. The legislature has… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
The War Powers Act requires presidents to seek the consent of the American people, through their representatives, before sending our troops into… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
I do think it's true that a huge amount of the oversight that the White House engages in with respect to the… — Donald Verrilli Jr Copy Share Image
“if something happened and he wasn’t present, he didn’t care about it and barely recognized it. His response then was often just… — Michael Wolff 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
When the American people look at the political process play out, they hear all the spinning and all the doctrinaire language, and… — David Gregory Copy Share Image
“As a dad, you are Vice President. You are part of the Executive Branch of the family, but you are the partner… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“In Maya’s group, the “executive branch,” everyone is talking at once. Maya hangs back. Samantha, tall and plump in a purple T-shirt,… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Humphrey was to say, and now he was planning to continue doing so, to use the chairmanship, in Humphrey’s words, “to hang… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I watched helplessly as the Bush administration led America into a… — Ricardo Sanchez Copy Share Image
“As a federal district court in Texas recently ruled, federal law “mandates the initiation of immigration removal proceedings whenever an immigration officer… — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image
The Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“Global warming is socialism by the back door. The whole point of global warming is that it's a rationalization for progressives to… — George F. Will Copy Share Image
“The report made a science fiction-like case that the president was within his constitutional rights to reinterpret congressional legislation to conform more… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
“...the Constitution is an invitation for the president and Congress to struggle for the privilege of directing foreign policy. Although the president… — Lee H. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Each of these interlocutors provided Kushner with something of a tutorial on the limitations of presidential power—that Washington was as much designed… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Early on, before getting down to attacking each other, Bannon and Kushner were united in their separate offensives against Priebus. Kushner’s preferred… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“One more thing, gentlemen, before I quit. Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase that the Yankees… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we've had probably in American history. The idea he doesn't realize that… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“One more thing, gentlemen, before I quit. Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase that the Yankees… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“One more thing, gentlemen, before I quit. Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase that the Yankees… — Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird Copy Share Image
“Article II creates an office, President of the United States, that remains a kind of inkblot onto which generations of Americans have… — Garrett Epps Copy Share Image
Congress is a co-equal branch of government, with a long and rich history of standing up to the executive branch. — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
Our executive branch does not believe in interfering with what the legislative branch chooses to do. We believe in federalism. — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
Leaking classified information is a crime. And if we have evidence that somebody in the executive branch is committing a crime, we… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
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