Marty Mehan Quotes

Congress is always looking for occasions to differ from the President.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule-- and both commonly succeed, and are right.

The Congress is getting too powerful.

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.

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.

I think that less presidential interference the better.

Today, the most important political instrument in the hands of the opposition is the presidential veto.

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

Now that we have a Republican Congress, their [Republican members of Congress] job is to hold up the hands of executive departments, but they have not learned that yet. Their automatic thinking is to tear them down.

If the President be connected, in any suspicious manner, with any person, and there be grounds to believe he will shelter him, the House of Representatives can impeach him.

If I could only be President and Congress too, for just 10 minutes.

The imperial Presidency requires a passive Congress.

The whole power of the national government is gradually but surely passing under the complete control of our Presidents.

An attorney general has to stand up [to the President], and sometimes he will be replaced.

The federal courts do not sit as an ombudsman, refereeing the disputes between the other two branches.

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

I would dare to dispute the integrity of the President on any occasion my country's welfare demanded it.... The President is neither an absolute monarch nor a descendant of a sun goddess.

Most Americans look upon the President as superior to the Congress and the Supreme Court, about whose powers and functions they know very little;

At present the direction of our affairs, foreign and domestic, has again come to be almost wholly in the hands of the Senate, because there are in the Senate a few courageous men who have dared to take control from the Executive.

President Clinton invoked executive power a bunch of times... I think once he started doing that, the courts really pushed back on him. He couldn't use it for things that actually had a better basis. He used it for things that were personal, like the Lewinsky investigation, trying to block his aides from testifying.

The question of impeaching Donald Trump is about replacing the toxic partisanship of today's Republican party with America's traditional rule of law. It has become a constitutional imperative.

There's a lot of bipartisan rancor, a lot of excessive delegation of legislative power from the legislative branch to the executive branch.

So there are 535 members of Congress. Many of us want what's best for the American worker and the American economy. Others want what is best in their goals to take down President Trump.

I did not come to Congress to impeach the President. But I took an oath to protect our country and defend the Constitution.

Forget about war or disease or poverty. The apocalypse is when America's elected president is no longer supervised by the unelected ruling establishment.