Enough Quote by Ross Douthat

Presidents don't have power. Their job is to draw attention away from it.

— Douglas Adams

Presidential power is the power to persuade.

— Richard Neustadt

These last few years we've seen an unacceptable abuse of power, having a president whose priority is expanding his own power.

— Trey Gowdy

I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they…

— Rachel Maddow

You cannot denude the presidency of the substance and power of its office. It can't be done.

— Benjamin Wittes

The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal Constitution or…

— William Howard Taft

We can't give excessive, unfettered power to a president to act alone, to bind an entire country to a set of principles, a set…

— Mike Lee

I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which…

— Thomas Jefferson

The power of the presidency is important, but it is not determinative.

— Edward Snowden

The administration of George W. Bush, emboldened by the Sept. 11 attacks and the backing of a Republican Congress, has sought to further extend…

— Noah Feldman

We cannot have a president of the United States that is willing to abuse the power of the office of the presidency and be…

— Marjorie Taylor Greene

There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is…

— James Bovard