Tim Kaine Quotes

The actions of our president systematically provide both the legal and political justifications for similar initiatives undertaken by later presidents.

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

The Congress decides when to make war and the President decides how to make war.

Congressional power has not so much been usurped by the Presidency as given up to the Presidency by Congress.

Happily, there has been little occasion in our history for the interpretation of the powers of the President as Commander in Chief.

I suport every President.

I do not believe the President requires any additional authorization from the Congress before committing US forces to achieve our objectives in the Gulf.

I don't think we've ever had a president who has more disdain for Washington than Barack Obama does, and he does things with executive orders or rules that you don't even see.

The president is supposed to execute faithfully the laws that the legislature has written. So, the executive orders that Barack Obama president is writing are without precedent. Without precedent so with he's rewriting law. It's totally illegal.

The Daily Beast reports today that if Steve Bannon is denied a security clearance, the President could simply overrule that denial and order that security clearance.

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

What [President Donald Trump] is doing is taking away the executive overreach that President [Barack] Obama did which we thought exceeded his powers.

When I'm president, we'll have executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day

The president has the authority to end this dragnet surveillance immediately

The Constitution of the United States doesn't change the powers of the president based on the number by which you get elected.

You cannot denude the presidency of the substance and power of its office. It can't be done.

I don't doubt that there are many presidential acts that would constitute obstructions of justice if anyone but the president engaged in them but which constitute legitimate exercises of presidential power when the president engages in them.

It's not their job from the establishment-through-calcification to sit there and try to withhold the president, to rein him in or slow down his agenda.

There is no doubt in my mind that Article II limits to a considerable degree the application of the obstruction statutes to the president when he is acting in his capacity as chief law-enforcement officer of the country.

My grandfather was a popular senator, known as an advocate for fiscal responsibility, including the line-item veto for the president.

A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.

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

Almost always, executive orders are within an authority and always within the purview of Congress to change if they want to legislatively change it.

The Constitution gives the president of the United States an extraordinarily wide grant of authority to use the power of the pardon.

I've got a pen, and I've got a phone, and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive action. I've got a pen to talk executive actions where congress won't. Where congress isn't acting, I'll act on my own. I have got a pen and I got a phone. And that is all I need.