Executive Power famous quotes

I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant.
-- Edward Snowden

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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

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I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. I still 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

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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

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Civilization has developed executive powers far beyond its understanding.
-- Maude Meagher

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The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.
-- Michael Parenti

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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

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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

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