Trish Regan Quotes

Is there really a way to restrict the powers of the Commander in Chief ... when one man's swiftly pressing the button may be necessary for some degree of national survival?

Any President can control the agenda.

More than any other U. S. President, Theodore Roosevelt permanently transformed the position of Chief Executive…. What had been largely an administrative position subordinate in many ways to Congress, grew into the locus of policy making and the office everyone looked to for leadership on issues large and small.

For better or worse, a critical factor in high level policy making is the President as a human being. Crudely put, there’s no right or wrong way; there’s the President’s way.

In my tenure I had three one-on-one meetings in the Oval Office with the President, and I can assure you that you remember every word of those meetings. Abd if the President indicates what he would like or prefer, you do not take that as optional.

Presidential powers are not exercised by a body or group. The Constitution vests 'all executive power' in one and only one person - the president.

As of now, I am in control here in the White House.

Is there any statute that gives the President authority in any way to change the spelling?

The presidency is not about easy choices.

When a President asserts constitutional powers he needs to be pretty certain he has those powers.

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.

The President cannot refuse to enforce a law simply because he does not like it.

Cabinet members may disagree and even resign in protest, but, ultimately, they must obey the order of the Commander-in-Chief.

The secretary of defense makes recommendations, sometimes will make strong recommendations to the president of the United States. But the president, whoever it is at that time, decides, makes the call on whether or not to take that recommendation.

I would never say President Obama doesn't have the capacity to continue to serve because of his statement that there are 56 states.

I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.

Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.

The president of the United States can't even fire his chef. I'm not kidding.

Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency.

By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime.

I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible.

If a president can enforce a part of a law and delay a part of a law, then does he have a power to not enforce any law he so chooses? If he can allow illegal aliens to freely run across our border, can he force legal citizens out of the country? Where would be the end of his power?

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.

That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

I respect the office of the president.