Lee Hsien Loong Quotes

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

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

I think that less presidential interference the better.

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

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

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

The framers of our Constitution thought it was of critical, critical importance, in establishing three branches of government, that we have an independent judiciary. Therefore was that without that, the provisions of the constitution couldn’t be enforced

The difference between the departments undoubtedly is, that the legislature makes, the executive executes, and the judiciary construes the law.

The Congress is getting too powerful.

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.

A committee of the Senate ought to confer with a committee of the President through a head of a department and not with the Chief Magistrate, for in the latter case a committee of that House is equal to the President.

Judicial, Legislative and Executive departments ought to be commensurate

The Founders of this Nation entrusted the lawmaking power to the Congress alone in both good and bad times … the President's power to see that the laws are faithfully executed refutes the idea that he is to be a law-maker.

The president is the government.

The judicial branch of the government is the least dangerous because … it has no influence over either the sword or the purse.

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

If we look into the constitutions of the several States, we find that … there is not a single instance in which the several departments of power have been kept absolutely separate and distinct.

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.

Every once in a while, the Senate seems to remember that it belongs to a coequal branch.

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

The courts are supposed to be the inferior branch of our three branches of government.

I hope that the American public understands that we have three levels of government. We have the (unintelligible) the executive, but there's legislative and the judicial, and the legislative obviously need to be just doing their job.

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.

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.