Mike Braun Quotes

Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given to the legislative body.

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

There is no major political issue in the country that does not end up as a legal issue.

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

You have a good judicial system in the U.S., as you have learned from the Nixon-Watergate period.

The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.

England is the model from which impeachment has been borrowed.

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.

The Congress is not a court of law but it is a court of public opinion.

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

What does a vote for impeachment really mean? It is a vote to nullify the most sacrosanct institution in any democracy, the ballot box.

The framers of the Constitution did not entrust this House with the power to impeach the President of the United States in order to establish this body as a court of personal morality.

A Senate seat is a terrible thing to waste.

In the United States almost every political question becomes a legal question—or at least a question with legal dimensions.

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

In the case of impeachments, which are the groans of the people … and carry with them a greater supposition of guilt than any other accusation, there all the Lords must judge.

The powers relating to impeachment are an essential check in the hands of the body of the legislature against and upon the encroachments of the executive.

When people were subjected to the impeachment and removal process, Aaron Burr was right there, looking out for their rights, even though it wasn't in his political interest to do so.

Undermining the rule of law is an assault on the government of the United States.

Impeachment is allowed under Brazil's Constitution.

Our government depends upon the rule of law.

As lawmakers, we swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution.

To be clear, impeachment is above all else a political act.

How to check these unconstitutional invasions of rights by the Federal judiciary? Not by impeachment in the first instance, but by a strong protestation of both houses of Congress that such and such doctrines advanced by the Supreme Court are contrary to the Constitution; and if afterwards they relapse into the same heresies, impeach and set the whole adrift. For what was the government divided into three branches, but that each should watch over the others and oppose their usurpations?

Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.