Branch Quotes

Branch Quote of the day

The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.

I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch.

In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.

The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity.

Ive been in the legislative branch and now the executive branch and in each case I felt it was important we use our constitutional responsibilities to the fullest.

The Supreme Court must serve as an independent check on abuses by the executive branch and the protector of our liberties, not a cheerleader for an imperial presidency.

Our executive branch does not believe in interfering with what the legislative branch chooses to do. We believe in federalism.

Everything is about accountability to the American people, accountability of the executive branch ... [and] accountability of the oversight of the Congress.

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.

The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.

Leaking classified information is a crime. And if we have evidence that somebody in the executive branch is committing a crime, we should prosecute that person.

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

The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.

The do-not-call registry is still being challenged in court. Yet, the conclusions of the American people, the legislative branch, and the executive branch are beyond question.

Donald Trump is speaking on behalf of the White House, of the executive branch of the United States. Credibility matters.

I think there's always a role for Congress under every instance in every administration to conduct oversight of the executive branch.

While I believe that my lengthy career provides sufficient evidence for consideration of my nomination, I am convinced the efforts to obtain Executive Branch materials and information will continue.

To those in the executive branch who say ‘just trust us’ when it comes to secret and warrantless surveillance of domestic communications, I say, ‘Remember your history.’

Quite often there's a great deal of disagreement within the executive branch about what we should do. Some cases are pretty straightforward, but a lot of them aren't.

I think there's even a chance that [R&D and innovation budgets] might be increased [during Donald Trump Administration] and we should go and make that case to the executive branch, to the Congress.

Man looks very coward and extremely primitive with an ostentatious big sword and he looks very brave and tremendously sophisticated with a humble olive branch!

Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it's something more.

The flower that does not smileat the branches withers.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds