Tan Cheng Bock Quotes

Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president.

The Senate's role is to advise and consent. Very little advice has been sought and consent has thus been a problem.

I think that less presidential interference the better.

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

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

Separation of powers means that the president cannot control Congress.

The power to make war is vested in Congress and not in the President. Congress has no constitutional authority to grant such authority to the president.

Nor is there any doubt that the Senate and President possess the power of making treaties.

The vast importance of the trust, and the operations of treaties as laws, plead strongly for the participation ... of the legislative body in the office of making them ... It must indeed be clear to a demonstration that the joint possession of the power in question, by the President and Senate, would afford a greater prospect of security, than the separate possession of it by either of them

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.

It's the job of the president to negotiate, but it's the job of Congress to approve.

It is a president's constitutional right to nominate a Supreme Court justice, and it is the Senate's constitutional right to act as a check on a president and withhold its consent.

Our Constitution wisely assigns both joint and separate roles to each branch of the government; and a President and a Congress who hold each other in mutual respect will neither permit nor attempt any trespass.

You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done.

We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished.

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.

Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged Bush to take a stronger stand against what Cheney sees as congressional intrusions into the executive branch.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

It was not the president's responsibility to run a law enforcement operation. It was ours.

Indian president does not determine policy. Here President is not the policy maker. In the name of the president, the cabinet takes the policy decision.

The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.

The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.

Presidents don’t get to do do-overs!

I was only one-half the appointing power. I nominated, but the Senate confirmed.

Congressmen take an independent oath to protect and defend the Constitution. They work with the President; they do not work for the President.