Abandonment Quote by Thomas Jefferson

In order for a president to be transformational, the old order has to fall as the orthodoxies that kept it in power exhaust themselves.

— John Dickerson

The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put…

— Harry Reid

Every President has a certain amount of things at the end of their Presidency that can't be reversed.

— B-Real

The appointing power vested in the president imposes delicate and onerous duties. So far as it is possible to be informed, I shall make…

— Zachary Taylor

Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging…

— Walter Lippmann

How often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great…

— M. E. W. Sherwood

We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the…

— William Howard Taft

Nonetheless, so whether it's unconstitutional or not [for judges to overruling presidents], I leave to others.

— David Brooks

I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its…

— Jim Gilmore

The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can…

— Daniel Ellsberg

We've just been sort of spinning our wheels for such a long time, for decades really, with each new president being considered illegitimate by…

— George Packer

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

— Trey Gowdy