Actions Quote by Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

When other presidents used the executive pen, they used to it for things like should we lower the flag at half mast for someone…

— Eric Bolling

You know how in movies the new president comes in and promises to perform sweeping actions with a stroke of a pen? The Administrative…

— Charles C. Mann

A president with a pen in their hand is a very powerful person.

— Fernando Haddad

If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon,…

— Laura Bush

The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an…

— Billy Collins

I had a policy that you had to recite the presidents of the U.S.A. to me before you could get my signature.

— Bob Backlund

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

— Donald Trump

I write with pen and paper, my first draft, on legal pads.

— Jennifer Egan

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

— Tim Kaine

I have a pen. You have a phone number. Think of the possibilities.

— Anonymous

I think executive orders with Donald Trump would be a very blunt instrument with respect to the Constitution.

— Scott Pruitt