Mohammed Morsi Quotes

It is not the Congress's job to rubber stamp bad decisions [of the President.]

It would be improper to put it in the power of any Man to negative a Law passed by the Legislature because it would give him the control of the Legislature

Historically, Congress hasn't paid much attention to the confines the Constitution establishes.

I think you have to be concerned about any presidential executive order because it has the power of law until it's knocked down by an act of Congress or a court.

Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.

Nothing in the 14th Amendment or in any other constitutional provision suggests that the president may usurp legislative power to prevent a violation of the Constitution.

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?

Determination by the legislature of what constitutes proper exercise of police power is not final or conclusive. It is subject to supervision by the courts.

No merely legislative body could control a single, concentrated Executive ….

[The impeachment power] is the heaviest piece of artillery in the congressional arsenal, but because it is so heavy it is unfit for ordinary use.

I do not believe that we [Congress] should allow him [the President] to nullify acts of Congress by executive fiat. There is not one syllable in the Constitution which authorizes the President to exercise such power.

[Congress is] the chief aggrandizer of the Executive.

Every law enacted by the General Assembly shall embrace but one subject.

In case of urgency, the President may issue provisional laws when Althingi is not in session. Such laws must not, however, be contrary to the Constitution. They shall always be submitted to Althingi as soon as it convenes.

What Congress and the popular sentiment approve is rarely defeated by reason of constitutional objections.

The President … does not originate laws or resolutions; he takes no part in the deliberations on them during their progress; he does not act in relation to them indirectly by advice or interference of any sort, until they have passed both houses: it is only when their operations are concluded that his power begins.

The powers relating to impeachment are an essential check in the hands of the body of the legislature against and upon the encroachments of the executive.

The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent.

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

People assume that the executive branch has more power than it actually has. Only the legislative branch can create the laws; the executive branch cannot create the laws. So, if the executive branch tries to create a branch one side or the other... you go back to the founders of the nation. They set up a system that ensures that it doesn't happen.

Certainly, the president is expected to safeguard the Constitution by vetoing unconstitutional acts of Congress. This is especially true because many laws can only be brought before the courts in a collateral way, if at all.

I think executive orders with Donald Trump would be a very blunt instrument with respect to the Constitution.

It should be remembered that the president cannot, by executive order, do things that affects the public at large unless there is some Congressional basis for it.

The president's powers are always open to being questioned by the co-equal branches of government.

When the President acts, he must do so pursuant to constitutionally enumerated Article II powers or statutory power allocated to him by Congress.