Grace Abbott Quotes

On form of government, there should be checks and balances, and PM should be responsible to Parliament.

It is provided by the Constitution that the President shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.

We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king.

Regulation has crept up on us steadily…. The most alarming feature of this concentration of power in the Federal government is the creation of omnipotent commissions to exercise it. The new fields of Federal control are administered by small Boards or executive commissions, usually appointed by the President and responsible to no one but the President. They are part of the Executive Department. But their function is not executive only. They have two additional functions: one is legislative, the other is judicial. These commissions write the rules which make the laws effective. Then they administer the rules; and when the rules are violated, they it in judgment on the violations.

Regulations are a form of legislation and should be decided by a political process, not more or better benefit-cost analyses.

The Capitol

From time to time we must remind ourselves that the President has a role in the legislative process.

If the Congress fails then American democracy is dysfunctional.

I have grave concerns that the CIA search may have violated the separation of powers principle embodied in the United States Constitution.

I grew up when 'Schoolhouse Rock' taught millions of American kids how a bill becomes a law.

I'm proud of Congress as a body. At the end of the day, we're the people's house, and we should be very mindful that we represent the people.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

I am the Federal Government.

In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment.

I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government employee. I am in the Constitution.

No one branch of the U.S. government should have supremacy over the other two.

If the president is failing to disclose material facts with regard to legislation being presented to the Congress on a question as important as war and peace, I think it does impair the level of trust that the House and the Senate have for this administration.

You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President.

Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.

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

Separation of powers means that the president cannot control Congress.

The Congress is getting too powerful.

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.

The legislature makes, the executive executes, and the judiciary construes the law; but the maker of the law may commit something to the discretion of the other departments, and the precise boundary of this power is a subject of delicate and difficult inquiry.

The Congress is the place where ordinary mortals go about the business of compromise—of compromise that gets us through the day.