Branches Quote by Sandra Day O'Connor

Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances…

— Patrick Henry

We are sworn to uphold the Constitution and law. And it has to be consistent and agreed upon with three branches of government -…

— Mike Huckabee

The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.

— Michele Bachmann

We've never had our injustices rectified from the top, from the president or Congress, or the Supreme Court, no matter what we learned in…

— Howard Zinn

The Three Branches of Government: Money, Television, and Bullshit

— P. J. O'Rourke

Under our system of three branches of government, the courts ultimately are the checks on the legislative and executive branches when they exceed or…

— Nina Totenberg

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

— Carl Bernstein

The three branches of government number considerably more than three and are not, in any sense, 'branches' since that would imply that there is…

— P. J. O'Rourke

You know, when you get to the New World and you develop your three branches of government and you have a civil society, you…

— Sam Harris

I'm looking for a Justice who appreciates the awesome responsibility that she will be given, if confirmed. A Justice who understands the gravity of…

— Amy Klobuchar

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry,…

— David Mamet

I think the Supreme Court has, as an equal branch of government, the ability to overrule Congress and the president. But I also feel…

— Rick Santorum

The federal judiciary is unlike the other branches of government. And once confirmed, a federal judge serves for life. And there's no court above…

— Patrick Leahy

Thank God for the founding fathers, who set up three separate branches of government. And the media acting as the Fourth Estate.

— Andre Carson

[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts…

— Thomas Jefferson