Executive Quotes

378 quotes by 303 authors

To be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage. — John Milius
Where would we in Washington and we in America be without the Center? We would know much less about the workings of our Congress, and… — Seymour Hersh
Nothing in the Constitution of the United States gives the Congress or the Executive Branch the power to attempt the task of regulating climate, as… — Harrison Schmitt
...every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned. — George Monbiot
Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example. — Edward F. Hennessey
The division into whig and tory is founded in the nature of men; the weakly and nerveless, the rich and the corrupt, seeing more safety… — Thomas Jefferson
I'd still say that visiting the stores and listening to our folks was one of the most valuable uses of my time as an executive.… — Sam Walton
Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion may… — Immanuel Kant
The minority has discovered a powerful help in influencing majorities. It has been found possible so to mold the mind of the masses that they… — Edward Bernays
The dangers of unexamined and unregulated monopoly power, particularly in the state executive, are hardly news. The right reaction is not passive acquiescence. — Noam Chomsky
Goldman Sachs was fundamentally responsible for the crash of 2008, but by that time its former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Henry 'Hank' Paulson, had… — David Icke
An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides. — John Henry Patterson
With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current president of America… — Aberjhani
As the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial departments of the United States are co-ordinate, and each equally bound to support the Constitution, it follows that each… — James Madison
So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state sovereignties are represented;… — Joseph Story
We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent… — Thomas Jefferson
Experience has instructed us that no skill in the science of government has yet been able to discriminate and define, with sufficient certainty, its three… — James Madison
The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive… — James Madison
If they are incorporated into the Constitution, independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those rights; they will… — James Madison
Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of power by a… — Alexander Hamilton

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