Absolute power Quote by Barack Obama

If I were a Democrat, I'd centralize power in Washington by nationalizing our elections. It wouldn't be enough to hold all three branches temporarily.…

— Lauren Boebert

You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President.

— Chuck Schumer

It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one.

— Thomas Jefferson

“But whoever seriously considers the immense extent of territory comprehended within the limits of the United States, together with the variety of its climates,…

— George Clinton

You know, this is - one can imagine how life would be different if one body of Congress was controlled by the other party,…

— Michael Isikoff

There simply is no greater threat to individual liberty and the viability of our great nation than the threat that comes from the continued…

— Scott Pruitt

Our Founders worried a lot about the tyranny of the majority. They designed our form of government to provide a loud voice for minority…

— Charlie Baker

We already have two branches of federal government that factor political considerations into their decision-making, and our Founding Fathers determined long ago that we…

— Thom Tillis

The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by…

— James Madison

When you're elected to Congress, you take a vow to uphold the Constitution and its system of checks and balances. That vow doesn't say,…

— Chellie Pingree

You can't have the legislative and executive branch working in a parallel universe...the partisanship that has gripped Washington has prevented us from dealing with…

— Olympia Snowe

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control…

— Sandra Day O'Connor