Common Quote by Ted Cruz

What Obama did wrong with executive power is he tried to change the law. He tried to ignore the law. And under the Constitution,…

— Ted Cruz

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

Obama must scrutinize and disassemble the post-Sept. 11 imperial presidency, even if he reduces his own power in the process.

— Ari Melber

In Barack Obama's second term, with his legislative agenda dead in a Republican-controlled Congress, the president turned to executive unilateralism on an innovative scale.

— Ross Douthat

Barack Obama's policies can be summarized as omnipotence at home, impotence abroad. So, the federal government is expanding its powers at home over the…

— Dinesh D'Souza

Team Obama is exploiting the power of high government office to intimidate lawful, peaceful contributors who support limited-government causes.

— Michelle Malkin

President Trump and his administration have made an intensive effort to roll back President Obama's big-government regulations, the worst of which was the Waters…

— Cindy Hyde-Smith

The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.

— Michael Parenti

“Using the powers of the office of President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute…

— Andrew McCarthy

The Obama administration has an undeniable pattern of using regulatory overreach and intimidation to further its political aims.

— Ron Johnson

President Obama's executive actions give work permits and federal entitlement benefits to people illegally in America - in direct violation of the laws passed…

— Donald Trump

As presidential authority expands, and the role of Congress diminishes, the American people continue to lose control over their government. Today's assertions of executive…

— Mickey Edwards