Branches Quote by Philip M. Breedlove

In Burma, under the present Constitution, the Army can always take over all parts of government if they think this is necessary. so until…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.

— George Will

The constitution has divided the powers of government into three branches, Legislative, Executive and Judiciary, lodging each with a distinct magistracy. The Legislative it…

— Thomas Jefferson

How to check these unconstitutional invasions of rights by the Federal judiciary? Not by impeachment in the first instance, but by a strong protestation…

— Thomas Jefferson

My concerns through the years increased about the concerns of an independent judiciary and how we maintain it. Certainly in the states. I'm a…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both Congress and…

— Joseph Sobran

What's insulting to the American people, the Senate, to this whole process is that the Republicans, with all other nominees, have said Democrats are…

— Rachel Maddow

If you leave out the magnetic stardom of sportsmen and actors, middle-class India today really has just two heroes - the army and the…

— Barkha Dutt

[The judiciary is] the least dangerous branch of our government.

— Alexander Bickel

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed,…

— James Madison

I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an…

— Barack Obama

The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have…

— Rose Bird

The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is…

— Michael Ignatieff