Executive orders Quotes

My argument is focused on the fact that a relatively small percentage of the world's Muslim countries are impacted by this order.…

— David B. Rivkin

American businesses are looking for are certainty and executive orders don't really get them that.

— Eric Bolling

My first [executive orders as a President] would be to get rid of a lot of the executive orders, especially on the…

— Donald Trump

Within two weeks of moving into the White House, Obama signed a series of executive orders championed by union bosses. The new…

— Michelle Malkin

A petition to have Justin Bieber deported got over 100,000 signatures, which means the White House now has to legally rule on…

— Jay Leno

It's important to use executive orders. Every president since Washington has.

— Tim Kaine

I ended Affirmative Action by executive order and replaced it with a leadership model that created more opportunities for African-American and Hispanic…

— Jeb Bush

I've got a pen, and I've got a phone, and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive…

— Barack Obama

We're [with Donald Trump] working from Day 1, which will be [Monday, January 23 2017], the first full business day of the…

— Mike Pence

After a migratory crisis on the border with minors coming over that you're seeing start up again now, after all these executive…

— Marco Rubio

A different [Ronald] Reagan-era authority: EO 12333, an executive order for foreign-intelligence collection, as opposed to the ones we now use domestically.…

— Edward Snowden

Now that Mr. Trump is the President-elect: If he chooses, he can, by executive order, repeal most of what President Barack Obama…

— Louis Farrakhan

For the Second Amendment to do its job, the other side must become much better informed. I watched an action-adventure program last…

— L. Neil Smith

With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current…

— Aberjhani

There is one way, only one way to solve it, and that is through legislation. It cannot be through an unconstitutional executive…

— Marco Rubio

The thing about an executive order - there has never been an executive order that a Congress couldn't say, "You know, we…

— Tim Kaine

The administration is out lying through its teeth about all these people signing up and how great Obamacare is now. Meanwhile, Obama…

— Rush Limbaugh

The gag rule must be eliminated, and it's just the gag rule, we're not talking now even about funding abortion. We're talking…

— Eleanor Smeal

I was very, very concerned about President Obama and how much executive order and how much executive power he tried to exert.…

— Rand Paul

All children should be welcomed into the world and protected by the law. As President, I would immediately repeal President Clinton's five…

— Gary Bauer

This bill attempts to make sure that President Clinton is not allowed to do by Executive Order what Congress has declined to…

— Jesse Helms

[Donald Trump] can do it [build the wall] by executive order by just re-programming money within the within the Immigration Service.

— Rudy Giuliani

I will cancel every illegal Obamacare executive order. I will cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities. Out.

— Donald Trump

On August 28, 1933, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6260, outlawing the constitutional right of U.S. citizens to own gold.

— Michael Maloney

The first thing [Donald Trump] is going to do is roll back the fiat executive orders that were unconstitutional.

— Mary Matalin