Ann Coulter Quotes

I think where I get frustrated at times was the belief that the president can do anything if he just decides he wants to do it.

A president cannot make decision on what someone might know in the future.

The president has the authority to end this dragnet surveillance immediately

You have multiple intelligence agencies. They all ultimately report to the director of national intelligence but, you know, it never comes in neat packages. So you have to make judgments on what you have, and it's not easy to do.

The office of the president is the most powerful in the world. It is also, at times, the most powerless.

I don't think anybody has that crystal ball but the president.

I don’t know if President (George W.) Bush understood how extreme some of the arguments were about executive power that some people in his administration were making.

American presidents get to make lots of choices, with one critical exception: what awaits them in the in-box on top of the desk in the Oval Office.

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

President Bush has proven he'll take a stand and fight for his programs and initiatives. It's the kind of leadership that makes things happen.

The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.

We need to keep trying to rescue the Constitution from the President.

Presidents and Lyndon Johnson was really no exception, very rapidly learned the difference between a contingency plan and an authorized act.

The President of the United States has a much wider power than the German Kaiser had, for he depended on parliament.

I can assure all Americans that the best decision is going to be made based on all of the information presented to the president.

Under our Constitution, presidents have something called 'veto power.

Why don't we see any questions from the press? Why don't we see anybody from the media saying, 'Mr. President, it's illegal, you started it, you are performing a program that is collecting all of the phone records from all Americans, it's been declared illegal from the second highest court in the land, why don't you stop?'

This is a fundamental question, Mr. Mayor [ Rudy Giuliani ]. Is the president of the United States legitimate or not? Do you believe it? If you believe it, why doesn't your candidate state it.

I don't think it's good for America to have a former president undermine a current president.

Saddam Hussein is a threat, but the threat is not so great that we must be stampeded to provide such authority to this president just weeks before an election.

It's important to use executive orders. Every president since Washington has.

Moving forward, the best way is going to be something that is going to be a collective decision, that is made, of course, with President-elect [Donald] Trump having the primary say as to how to move forward. But all those opinions will be in the room.

I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with [the president] trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm President of the United States of America.

A president has to provide leadership to gain support.

The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.