Saxby Chambliss Quotes

The best way to put the federal bureaucracy back on a leash is to make it obey the laws the people write.

It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.

An investigation in which the processes of law-making and law-evaluating are submerged entirely in exposure of individual behavior—in adjudication, of a sort, through the exposure process—is outside the constitutional pale of congressional inquiry.

It is against the enterprising ambition of this department [the legislature] that the people ought to indulge all their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions.

If members of Iran's parliament are prevented from criticizing the judiciary, then they should close down the parliament.

My job is to enforce the laws as passed by whom? Congress. They give me my authority. That's the jurisdictional responsibilities that I have, and when litigation is used to regulate... that's abusive. That's wrong.

I think there's always a role for Congress under every instance in every administration to conduct oversight of the executive branch.

The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy.

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

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

Government is not a bottom line enterprise. You can get yourself elected ... but you can't fire the legislature if they won't do what you want.

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.

Under our Constitution the Congress alone has the power to declare war.

It is the duty of parliament to look at the men as well as the measures.

[Congress is] the chief aggrandizer of the Executive.

Parliament is a grand inquest which has the right to inquire into anything and everything.

It would be a novel and dangerous doctrine that a legislature could change the constitution under which it held its existence.

The legislature makes, the executive executes, and the judiciary construes the law.

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.

It is up to Congress to see to it that its powers do not slip through its fingers

I consider the veto power ... to be used only ... to protect the Constitution from violation; secondly, the people from effects of hasty legislation where their will has been probably disregarded or not well understood; and thirdly, to prevent the effects of combinations violative of the rights of minorities.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced

The filibuster is the most important check on raw Presidential power.

I am the law in Indiana.

I take my 'advice and consent' duty as a U.S. senator very seriously.