Body Quote by Thomas Jefferson

If Congress were to censure, fine or otherwise try to punish a president, it would dramatically alter the balance of power between the branches..

— Mike DeWine

Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.

— Daniel Ellsberg

Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.

— Thomas More

I've put forth measures that would actually eliminate some of the executive branch power. You know, philosophically, that's where I am.

— Mark Meadows

I have a duty to protect the Executive Branch from legislative encroachment.

— George W. Bush

The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by…

— James Madison

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“If the president uses executive orders to legislate new laws, that would be an example of him subverting legislative power from Congress, and might…

— Gary Hansen

“The executive power in our government is not the only, perhaps not even the principal, object of my solicitude. The tyranny of the legislature…

— Thomas Jefferson

The Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war and most…

— Richard M. Nixon

Our system of checks and balances requires policymakers to have accurate information about government actions.

— Dianne Feinstein

The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the guardian…

— George Washington