Balance Quote by Mike Huckabee

People assume that the executive branch has more power than it actually has. Only the legislative branch can create the laws; the executive branch…

— Michael Dell

Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president.

— Tom Rice

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

I've put forth measures that would actually eliminate some of the executive branch power. You know, philosophically, that's where I am.

— Mark Meadows

Presidential powers are not exercised by a body or group. The Constitution vests 'all executive power' in one and only one person - the…

— William Barr

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

— William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they…

— James Comey

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it.

— William Pitt

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

One of the most important checks Congress has on the executive branch is its ability to hold it accountable to the American people. It's…

— Nancy Mace

“The late political scientist Aaron B. Wildavsky noted that “the power of the purse is the heart of legislative authority and thus an essential…

— Andrew McCarthy

Be assured that, as certain as Congress transcends its assigned limits and usurps powers never conferred, or stretches those conferred beyond the proper limits,…

— John C. Calhoun