Executive Branch Quotes

33 quotes by 30 authors

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law. — George W. Bush
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
You can't have the legislative and executive branch working in a parallel universe...the partisanship that has gripped Washington has prevented us from dealing with the… — Olympia Snowe
The time has passed in America when this party can be the party of compassion and let the executive branch run foreign policy. It won't… — Wesley Clark
While I believe that my lengthy career provides sufficient evidence for consideration of my nomination, I am convinced the efforts to obtain Executive Branch materials… — Harriet Miers
The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity. — George Washington
For those who believe executive branch officials will voluntarily interpret their surveillance authorities with restraint, I believe it is more likely that I will achieve… — Ron Wyden
Ive been in the legislative branch and now the executive branch and in each case I felt it was important we use our constitutional responsibilities… — John Engler
The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes… — Phyllis Schlafly
If in order to avoid further Communist expansion in Asia and particularly in Indo-China, if in order to avoid it we must take the risk… — Richard M. Nixon
I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with [the president] trying to bring more and… — Barack Obama
It bothers me that the executive branch is taking the amazing position that just on the president's say-so, any American citizen can be picked up,… — Laurence Tribe
I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured all four of these leaders that I know the… — George W. Bush
In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate. — Lincoln Chafee
We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor. — John Engler
Everything is about accountability to the American people, accountability of the executive branch ... [and] accountability of the oversight of the Congress — Jay Rockefeller
It is good to be back in the Peoples House. But this cannot be a real homecoming. Under the Constitution, I now belong to the… — Gerald R. Ford
As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always… — Jim Gaffigan
We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions… — Alan Dershowitz
The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid. — Lyn Nofziger

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