Pranab Mukherjee Quotes

Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president.

Egypt has a presidential system. The president runs the state. Who the president is matters profoundly.

I think that less presidential interference the better.

The President sets the policies and Congress does not. Our lawmakers in Washington ratify and implement what the President wants, but if he is a strong leader and can hold his own party together, even with the majority of the opposition against him he usually can win over enough members of Congress to carry what legislation he really feels is essential.

The president is the government.

Any President can control the agenda.

Denying the president a constitutional voice is the real threat to our system of separated powers.

I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.

You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done.

In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.

It is provided by the Constitution that the President shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.

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 not a policy and a strategy guy. I'm - you know, the military basically supports what the president wants, the decisions that he makes.

I have not had the cabinet here for 6 weeks. I can run the government better without them.

Separation of powers means that the president cannot control Congress.

Legislative proposals are not merely vehicles for expressing policy, they are devices for getting policy decided.

The most important benefit that I can confer on the country by my Presidency is to insist upon the entire independence of the executive and legislative branches of government

The powers that are surrendered [by Congress] to one President remain to be used by others.

The President ... should be merely the executor of a power of decision that rests elsewhere; that is, in the Congress.

There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a President to have anything to do with criminal activities.

It had better be known in the outset whether the President is the head of the government or the registering clerk of the Senate.

When I embarked in the government, it was with a determination to intermeddle not at all with the legislature.

It is the President alone who must make the major decisions of our foreign policy.

The Founders of this Nation entrusted the lawmaking power to the Congress alone in both good and bad times … the President's power to see that the laws are faithfully executed refutes the idea that he is to be a law-maker.

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.