Branches Quote by Feisal Abdul Rauf

Our system of government works best when there are checks and balances led by independent entities that are empowered to conduct fair and rigorous…

— Letitia James

Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a fragmented and…

— James Q. Wilson

When it comes to the separation of powers, the Constitution makes it look pretty simple: Congress makes the laws, the president enforces them and…

— Asha Rangappa

The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves, and united…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by…

— J. Reuben Clark

In the United States there are three parts of our government - the judiciary, the legislative and the executive - and the powers are…

— Philip M. Breedlove

Those who wrote the Constitution clearly understood that power is dangerous and needs to be limited by being separated - separated not only into…

— Thomas Sowell

People don't seem to understand that the separation of powers is not about the power of these branches; it's there to protect individual liberty…

— Jonathan Turley

We are a nation that has a government-not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth.

— Ronald Reagan

One of the principles upon which the E.U. is built is the separation of powers and the independence of the judiciary.

— Frans Timmermans

Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and…

— John Adams

In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples…

— Anonymous