Acting Quote by Andre Carson

The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put…

— Harry Reid

[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts…

— Thomas Jefferson

The notion that the Supreme Court comes up with the ruling and that automatically subjects the two other branches to following it defies everything…

— Mike Huckabee

The Three Branches of Government: Money, Television, and Bullshit

— P. J. O'Rourke

If you want to right-size executive power relative to the other branches of government, the best way to do that is to have a…

— Barack Obama

We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state…

— Alan Dershowitz

The President's pre-1776 mentality is hurting America and fracturing the foundation on which our country has stood for 230 years. The President can't just…

— Russ Feingold

Under our system of three branches of government, the courts ultimately are the checks on the legislative and executive branches when they exceed or…

— Nina Totenberg

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

— Carl Bernstein

I think Donald Trump understands there's a Constitution. And that those separate but equal branches of government give us a limited government. And he…

— Paul Ryan

I think the Supreme Court has, as an equal branch of government, the ability to overrule Congress and the president. But I also feel…

— Rick Santorum

The federal judiciary is unlike the other branches of government. And once confirmed, a federal judge serves for life. And there's no court above…

— Patrick Leahy