Executive Quotes

378 quotes by 303 authors

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive. — Scott Adams
February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment… — Xavier Becerra
There is a difference between executive producing and producing. Producing, you have no life for two years. You take everything personally, you want to kill… — Sandra Bullock
The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law. — George W. Bush
I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well. — George W. Bush
The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference. — Fred Allen
I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere. — Noam Chomsky
Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy. — Noam Chomsky
Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign… — Alexander Hamilton
It equally proves, that though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never… — Alexander Hamilton
We can't really have a serious debate about reform on immigration if we don't have operational control of the border. ... With the executive order… — Michael McCaul
It will be the duty of the Executive, with sufficient appropriations for the purpose, to prosecute unsparingly all who have been engaged in depriving citizens… — Rutherford B. Hayes
War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement — James Madison
The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone… — James Madison
Executive: a man who makes quick decisions and is sometimes right. — Kin Hubbard
Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public… — Thomas Jefferson
Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest… — Thomas Jefferson
To be worthy of the name, an experimenter must be at once theorist and practitioner. While he must completely master the art of establishing experimental… — Claude Bernard
I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the… — Abraham Lincoln

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