Congress Quote by Neal Katyal

The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.

— Sam Ervin

There's several different forms of executive privilege. The one that is most absolute would be close advisers talking to the president himself.

— Trey Gowdy

Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.

— Jacob Lew

A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I've been in two different administrations, and I would say, particularly, President Obama was really careful to make sure that he wouldn't invoke executive…

— Neal Katyal

“The president and his subordinates at the Department of Justice have used the executive’s awesome law enforcement power, including its access to vast sums…

— Andrew McCarthy

President Clinton invoked executive power a bunch of times... I think once he started doing that, the courts really pushed back on him. He…

— Neal Katyal

There are a lot of presidents in both parties - including President Obama - who had strong claims of executive privilege that I certainly…

— Conor Lamb

There is also the issue of personal privacy when it comes the executive power. Throughout our nation's history, whether it was habeas corpus during…

— Dick Durbin

The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.

— Warren E. Burger

Whatever the political affiliation of our next President, whatever his views may be on all the issues and problems that rush in upon us,…

— John F. Kennedy

The President is responsible to the public for the conduct of the person he has nominated and appointed.

— James Madison