Constitution Quote by Gary Hansen

I think executive orders with Donald Trump would be a very blunt instrument with respect to the Constitution.

— Scott Pruitt

“The report made a science fiction-like case that the president was within his constitutional rights to reinterpret congressional legislation to conform more closely to…

— Rachel Maddow

Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.

— Charles Krauthammer

If the president is allowed to govern by executive action, then the rule of law greatly suffers.

— Scott Pruitt

“Executive power thus could be exercised adjacent to legislation without actually trespassing on legislative power. The executive, for example, could make regulations and interpretations…

— Philip Hamburger

Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.

— Fabrizio Moreira

When you have a gutless Congress a lawless president can do pretty much what he chooses.

— Lyn Nofziger

“If a president is the type of man who couples his hope with audacity, if he is willing to play Alinsky-style hardball despite his…

— Andrew McCarthy

Under Article II, all executive power is vested in one president of the United States. The regulatory state is Congress's efforts to undermine the…

— Ted Cruz

Almost always, executive orders are within an authority and always within the purview of Congress to change if they want to legislatively change it.

— Tim Kaine

I think you have to be concerned about any presidential executive order because it has the power of law until it's knocked down by…

— Richard Shelby

The president is supposed to execute faithfully the laws that the legislature has written. So, the executive orders that Barack Obama president is writing…

— Rafael Cruz