Modern Democrats aren't the first political party to abuse power - far from it. Obama isn'€™t the first president to abuse executive… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with [the president] trying to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood;… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
Church, the spiritual power, and the executive power are working today united in a system that confronts people. This alliance or cooperation… — Andrey Zvyagintsev Copy Share Image
The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
The constitution has divided the powers of government into three branches, Legislative, Executive and Judiciary, lodging each with a distinct magistracy. The… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[T]hough individual oppression may now and then proceed fro the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The most fearful phenomenon of these midcentury years is not the atom bomb; atomic energy does have its constructive possibilities.... The most… — Wheeler McMillen Copy Share Image
Executive power is exercised by the President of the Governing Board who, with the title of President of the Republic of Chile,… — Augusto Pinochet Copy Share Image
The government's assertion that it must be unhindered in protecting our security can camouflage the desire to increase Executive power, while the… — Richard Stengel Copy Share Image
I am committed against every thing which in my judgment, may weaken, endanger, or destroy (the Constitution) ... and especially against all… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold. — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny.… — Steve Stockman Copy Share Image
And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
That the legislative and executive powers of the State should be separate and distinct from the judiciary; and that the members of… — George Mason Copy Share Image
I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau Copy Share Image
To me, Los Angeles and California and executive power are about big, open warehouse buildings. Tech companies are buying oversized buildings, because… — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share Image
Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The whole body of the nation is the sovereign legislative, judiciary, and executive power for itself. The inconvenience of meeting to exercise… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
I was very, very concerned about President Obama and how much executive order and how much executive power he tried to exert.… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory.… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
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