I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with [the president] trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm President of the United States of America.
Townhall in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, March 31, 2008.
![I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with [the president] trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all.](http://cdn.quoteddaily.com/images/barack-obama/i-take-the-constitution-very-seriously-the-biggest-problems-that-were-facing-right-now-have-to-do-with-the-president.jpg)