Authority Quote by Michael Beschloss Download Open image “The Founders deliberately limited presidential authority.” — Michael Beschloss ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Authority Limited Presidential
The founders wanted to make it hard for laws to be passed. They wanted to make it hard for there to be restrictions on… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Our founders thought long and hard about what the office of president should be. George Washington resisted the role, and then defined it. — Martha MacCallum Copy Share Image
America's founders were clear that the Constitution established a federal government of few and defined powers. It cannot regulate any activity it chooses, but… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
Our founders made it extraordinarily difficult to amend the Constitution. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Constitution created a system of checks and balances designed to prevent the president from becoming a king or a dictator. Our founders had… — Jessica Tarlov Copy Share Image
The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances. This was… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Our Founders worried a lot about the tyranny of the majority. They designed our form of government to provide a loud voice for minority… — Charlie Baker Copy Share Image
We had so many different presidents, including Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln - there were other founders like Hamilton, Adams - who made it very clear… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
The founders knew that foreign governments would try to meddle in our elections, meddle in our politics. And they did not want any foreign… — Reince Priebus Copy Share Image
I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution. — John Engler Copy Share Image
Our founders insisted that protecting the states' power to govern themselves was vital to limit the power of Washington and preserve freedom. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Under the system that we now have to nominate presidential candidates, for instance, I would prefer that we have a system that is closer… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
Mrs. Johnson was one of our most important First Ladies. Quietly but firmly, she advised LBJ on rhetoric, strategy, and personal relations and helped… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
As you look back in history, we [the United States] have done wonderful things, the Marshal Plan is the most obvious. After World War… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
You really do live through someone's life when you hear him six hours a day. — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
Whether history will view Ronald Reagan as a great president depends, more than anything else, on one question: how much credit does he deserve… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business. — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
During his last 18 months in office, Eisenhower flew to Asia, Europe, and Latin America and deployed his war hero's popularity to seek new… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized. — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
Anyone who writes anything on any subject is standing on the shoulders of 900 people who've come before you. — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin. — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better? — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor. — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an… — Erica Goros Copy Share Image
In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
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