Augusto Pinochet Quotes

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

The president is the government.

I'm a former governor, and so I was the chief executive, and when the legislature wasn't in session, I was running the state.

Charged with faithfully executing the laws, the president is, in effect, the nation's highest law enforcement officer.

The function of president in France is one of significant symbolic value; it can't be compared with that of prime minister or cabinet member. Everything you do, everything you say - but also what you don't say - suddenly has meaning. That might sound quite formidable or even stressful, but I think it is a product of the history of this role.

I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible.

The President is the people's lobbyist.

As of now, I am in control here in the White House.

The president of the United States is a commander-in-chief, and the president of the United States, you know, executes the laws and tries to motivate the American public to make changes that are necessary. It's not necessarily a CEO type of position.

I'm thinking about governing as the governor of this state, and that's what I'm going to do.

Francois Hollande is the president of the republic, he must be respected. I want to wish him good luck in the midst of these tests.

His Highness the President, Protector of the Liberties of the United States

The office of the President is not such a very difficult one to fill, his duties being mainly to execute the laws of Congress. Should I be chosen for this exalted position, I would execute the laws of Congress as faithfully as I have always executed the orders of my superiors.

The president is the only one we have to make decisions. We have no one else.

[Describing the presidency:] ... the organ of the will of the nation ... elective kingship.

The Presidency is the vital center of action in America.

More than any other U. S. President, Theodore Roosevelt permanently transformed the position of Chief Executive…. What had been largely an administrative position subordinate in many ways to Congress, grew into the locus of policy making and the office everyone looked to for leadership on issues large and small.

Modi has been the Gujarat chief minister for more than a decade, but there is a vast difference between controlling a state and leading a nation.

Our founders thought long and hard about what the office of president should be. George Washington resisted the role, and then defined it.

Presidential powers are not exercised by a body or group. The Constitution vests 'all executive power' in one and only one person - the president.

The American presidency combines elements of the efficient and the dignified. The president presides over governance - not making legislation but proposing it, cajoling the co-equal federal legislature and then signing and executing the laws.

I think the president must be very watchful of what is happening. The president cannot deal with the bread and butter issues of Parliament, but he cannot be a sleeping president.

The president cannot escape from his office.

The only person who counts in the administration is the president of the United States.

I'm not impressed with presidents. I have met a few, but I'm not impressed with them.