American people Quote by Barbara Jordan

I think you have to be concerned about any presidential executive order because it has the power of law until it's knocked down by…

— Richard Shelby

Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.

— Fabrizio Moreira

Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.

— Charles Krauthammer

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

— Tim Kaine

The thing about an executive order - there has never been an executive order that a Congress couldn't say, "You know, we don't like…

— Tim Kaine

Almost always, executive orders are within an authority and always within the purview of Congress to change if they want to legislatively change it.

— Tim Kaine

People assume that the executive branch has more power than it actually has. Only the legislative branch can create the laws; the executive branch…

— Michael Dell

Presidential powers are not exercised by a body or group. The Constitution vests 'all executive power' in one and only one person - the…

— William Barr

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

— Scott Pruitt

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

— Garet Garrett

The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of…

— John Adams

No president, not the smartest, best human being in the world can do it alone. You cannot take on this, the power that is…

— Bernie Sanders