Branches Quote by Byron White

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision.

— Byron White

Congress is the third branch of government... which makes every one of the 535 members of Congress 1/535th of that important one-third, which works…

— Wesley Pruden

One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire government just…

— Barack Obama

I think the Supreme Court has, as an equal branch of government, the ability to overrule Congress and the president. But I also feel…

— Rick Santorum

What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.

— Terry Pratchett

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

— Jeremy Bentham

The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government.

— Todd Akin

The thing I'd want people to say about me is that, in some way, I helped bring the Senate and the Congress back to…

— Charles Schumer

For students, understanding the separate and unique functions of each branch of government can help them understand how different kinds of government officials can…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch…

— Thomas Jefferson

[The judiciary is] the least dangerous branch of our government.

— Alexander Bickel

Thank God for the founding fathers, who set up three separate branches of government. And the media acting as the Fourth Estate.

— Andre Carson