Money Quote by Andrew McCarthy

President Trump has challenged Congress to reduce the burden on the American worker and to build an economy that rewards honest work. Congress should…

— Josh Hawley

The Constitution grants only Congress - not the president - the power 'to borrow money on the credit of the United States.'

— Laurence Tribe

“As far as they were concerned, if the U.S. government did not extinguish its debt, there would always be public creditors. Those creditors, who…

— Kevin R.C. Gutzman

“The report made a science fiction-like case that the president was within his constitutional rights to reinterpret congressional legislation to conform more closely to…

— Rachel Maddow

“I don’t think we’ll solve the problem of the deficit until three things happen: We need more discipline on spending in Congress. We need…

— Ronald Reagan

“as a planned result of the separation of powers, the president must persuade Congress of the rightness of his choices, and that is the…

— Jack Cashill

The last time I checked, the president was supposed to sit down and figure out what he wanted and then get Congress to go…

— Diana Taylor

It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the…

— Robert Byrd

“Franklin wanted a unicameral legislature and an executive council in lieu of a president. He also opposed a presidential veto on legislation, thinking it…

— Ron Chernow

“I love the Constitution, but it placed ridiculously small limits on the power of the federal government. Taken literally, our total powers include coining…

— Erne Lewis

“The President and the Congress are all very well in their way. They can say what they think they think, but it rests with…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“It is clear from the writings of our founding fathers that they disagreed with such excessive taxation to redistribute wealth. In the Annals of…

— Ben Carson