Executive Power Quotes

Executive Power Quote of the day

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

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

Executive power is exercised by the President of the Governing Board who, with the title of President of the Republic of Chile, administers the state and is the Supreme Chief of the Nation.

Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.

The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.

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.

Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

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

Civilization has developed executive powers far beyond its understanding.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

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.

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

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.