Jim Moran Quotes

The United States is a very difficult country to govern.

You cannot govern the United States from one house of the Congress.

Our system of checks and balances makes it simpler to stop bills than enact them.

A plural Legislature is as necessary to good Government as a single Executive. It is not enough that your Legislature should be numerous; it should also be divided. Numbers alone are not a sufficient Barrier against the Impulses of Passion, the Combinations of Interest, the Intrigues of Faction, the Haste of Folly, or the Spirit of Encroachment. One Division should watch over and control the other, supply its Wants, correct its Blunders, and cross its Designs, should they be made up of the Portions of Sense and Knowledge which each Member brings to it.

I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.

Thank God for some Republican control of one branch of the government.

If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?

The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.

I mean, what are they scared of? Who's going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God's sake?

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

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

I wouldn’t be too serious about bipartisanship. It’s a great myth that ought to be fostered. And don’t bring too damn much scholarship to bear on it. You’ll prove it out of existence if you’re not careful.

Any person would like a line item veto if the chief executive at that time agrees with their particular views.

Party divisions, whether on the whole operating for good or evil, are things inseparable from free government.

Governments propose, and oppositions dispose.

The American system is so constituted that it produces a conflict between the Executive and Congress every time the Executive tries to be positive and strong.

The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war and most prone to it.

People want divided government.

You have come here by the sovereign will of the people to cooperate with me in carrying out the mandate recently pronounced at the polls.

it would be so dangerous for the Executive in a single Person to negative a Law that the People will not accept of it.

In the United States almost every political question becomes a legal question—or at least a question with legal dimensions.

From time to time we must remind ourselves that the President has a role in the legislative process.

Congress members put their ideology ahead of your prosperity.

Stop sending out press releases and start passing some bills...

Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amok by hamstringing it.