Arthur Miller Quotes

Presidential powers are not exercised by a body or group. The Constitution vests 'all executive power' in one and only one person - the president.

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

There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency.

[In wartime] there is almost always an overstretch [for power] by the President.

The powers that are surrendered [by Congress] to one President remain to be used by others.

I do not believe that the President has any powers at all except such as the Constitution expressly gives him or such as are necessarily inferred.

Is there really a way to restrict the powers of the Commander in Chief ... when one man's swiftly pressing the button may be necessary for some degree of national survival?

Any President has authority who asserts authority.

We have not found a way to give Congress control without depriving the President of essential power.

The president is the government.

He [the President] has the power, but that does not mean that he has the legitimate, constitutional right to use it.

Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

Protection really takes on the personality of the President.

There is not a single Supreme Court case that insinuates that the President can violate a federal statute in order to gather foreign intelligence. It was a flagrant violation of The Constitution.

Exempting judicial nominations from filibusters would expand Presidential power.

We have long since made clear that a state of war is not a blank check for the President when it comes to the rights of the Nation’s citizens.

The President has no authority to direct anyone to disobey the law.

Is there any statute that gives the President authority in any way to change the spelling?

A man who understands the power of the Presidency, who understands the potential of the Presidency, can get almost anything accomplished.

Never underestimate the power of an American President in his early days.

Congress ... is far more than the simple, limited advisory council that most Presidents would like to maintain.

Congress has chosen to recognize that a president may be forced to pursue legitimate foreign policy objectives by covert means. Such recognition, however, does not mean it surrenders the right to be informed of covert measures so that it can express its views as to the legitimacy of the goals or the wisdom of seeking to achieve them.

We are told here today, that what the King of England can't do, the President of the United States can.