Executive Quotes

378 quotes by 303 authors

The administration is out lying through its teeth about all these people signing up and how great Obamacare is now. Meanwhile, Obama continues to break… — Rush Limbaugh
The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war. — James Madison
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. — Earl Nightingale
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by… — Richard M. Nixon
The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid. — Lyn Nofziger
Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent judicial branch that… — Sandra Day O'Connor
I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier. — James Cash Penney
My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people. — James Cash Penney
Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose… — John Podhoretz
A producer is someone who actually calls the shots. An executive producer is just a guy that eats more food at craft service. — Ryan Reynolds
Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive. — John D. Rockefeller
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from… — Theodore Roosevelt
Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest… — Jonathan Sacks
Steve Jobs was rare: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company's fortunes. Contrary to corporate mythology, most C.E.O.s could be easily… — James Surowiecki
Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged… — Helen Thomas
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. — Daniel Webster
I am an old, old friend of Aaron Sorkin's, who is the executive producer and writer. He had been talking about doing a political show… — Bradley Whitford
I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch. — Bob Woodward
I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second. — Steven Wright

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