Elect Quote by Benjamin Wittes Download Open image “The only way to tyrantproof the presidency is not to elect tyrants to the presidency.” — Benjamin Wittes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Elect Only Presidency Tyrants Way
You cannot denude the presidency of the substance and power of its office. It can't be done. — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states. — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Power lies in reason, resolution, and truth. No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end. — Khalil Copy Share Image
Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Reasonable people can disagree about the authorities the NSA should have, when it's appropriate for the CIA to use drone strikes, and how assertive… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
I'm a rationalist and a skeptic, someone who safely separates faith from reason. — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
I'm an unabashed apologist for strong national-security authority. That's why I might be more alarmed by Trump. — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
If you believe, as I do, that the scope and range of presidential authority is great, that puts a lot of weight on the… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
In any long string of letters, one can find countless anomalies that will seem like convincing proofs of hidden meaning to the mind that… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
To get a FISA warrant to spy on a suspected spy, the feds go before a super-secret court located in a sealed room in… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
One effect of Roe was to mobilize a permanent constituency for criminalizing abortion - a constituency that has driven much of the southern realignment… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
There is no doubt in my mind that Article II limits to a considerable degree the application of the obstruction statutes to the president… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
It might seem perverse for honestly religious people to group their faiths with those of the sadists and megalomaniacs who run most cults, but… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
I think if you look all across the country, the so-called Blue Dogs are all gone to kennel. There are no more Blue Dogs,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We live in a time when fictitious election results elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
For those of us who originally disagreed with ObamaCare and now disagree with the majority opinion of the SCOTUS, the challenge remains the same… — Bob Beauprez Copy Share Image
I think people are looking for a president who has views and who sticks to those views. So, I think Governor Romney, Governor Perry,… — Lamar Alexander Copy Share Image
I had great admiration for the election of President Obama. I believe that the U.S. at that moment showed tremendous capacity to show that… — Dilma Rousseff Copy Share Image
The 5th Amendment guarantees that defendants can't face 'double jeopardy,' which means the government can't prosecute a person a second time for the same… — Robert Shapiro Copy Share Image
In the history of U.S. elections, the fall of 2000 is notorious for the debacle that occurred in the country's attempt to elect a… — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
“The Cross of Christ is the Aroma of Life for the elect and the Aroma of Death for the reprobate” — Royal Raj S Copy Share Image
Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto… — Peter Schuyler Copy Share Image
For many years I have advocated 'redesigning Parliament' in a variety of ways - elect the Senate, do away with the 'confidence convention,' permit… — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
