Legislative Branch Quotes
- Global climate change is real. The legislative branch of our government is our last line of defense against pollution which is why I am so… — Kyra Sedgwick
- 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
- 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 question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a subject of consideration… — Thomas Jefferson
- Global warming may be a 'crisis,' even 'the most pressing environmental problem of our time.' ... Indeed, it may ultimately affect nearly everyone on the… — John Roberts
- 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
- 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
- The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government. — Todd Akin
- 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
- 'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices… — Karl Rove
- As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for a reason. Neither… — Dan Pfeiffer
- Last year, I was proud to be an original co-sponsor of legislation that would increase federal judges' salaries by more than 40 percent. It also… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz