Top 11 Executive Power Quotes

I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.

I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

Executive Power, Royal, Revolution

The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.

Political, Peculiar, Executive Power

Michael Parenti (2010). “Democracy for the Few”, p.227, Cengage Learning

And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other departments.

Alexander Hamilton

Liberty, Executive Power, Unions

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.380, Coventry House Publishing

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

George W. Bush

Humor, Political, Executive Power

George W. Bush's Remarks in Question and Answer Session with the Press, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. January 29, 2001.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

Noam Chomsky

Executive Power, Accumulation, Executives

"Noam Chomsky on Venezuela - the transcript". Interview with Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2011.

Civilization has developed executive powers far beyond its understanding.

Maude Meagher

Civilization, Understanding, Executive Power

Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.

John Podhoretz

Government, President, Executive Power

More fundamentally, however, the answer to petitioners' objection is that there can be no impairment of executive power, whether on the state or federal level, where actions pursuant to that power are impermissible under the Constitution. Where there is no power, there can be no impairment of power.

William J. Brennan

Executive Power, Answers, Levels

"Elrod v. Burns, 427 U.S. 347, 353". Writing for the court, 1976.

What Obama did wrong with executive power is he tried to change the law. He tried to ignore the law. And under the Constitution, Article I, all legislative authority is vested in Congress.

Ted Cruz

Law, Executive Power, Constitution

Source: time.com

To me, Los Angeles and California and executive power are about big, open warehouse buildings. Tech companies are buying oversized buildings, because they project growth immediately.

James Pearse Connelly

California, Growth, Executive Power

"What goes into designing The Biggest Loser's sets, stages, and chill rooms?". Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. June 27, 2016.

I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. I will have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely to be found guilty, we should do our best not to, in positions of executive power, not to prejudge jury trials.

Howard Dean

People, Guilt, Executive Power

"Dean: Bin Laden guilt best determined by jury". New Hampshire's Concord Monitor Interview, edition.cnn.com. December 26, 2003.