Ted Cruz Quotes

The veto is a President's Constitutional right, given to him by the drafters of the Constitution because they wanted it as a checkagainst irresponsible Congressional action. The veto forces Congress to take another look at legislation that has been passed. I think this is a responsible tool for a president of the United States, and I have sought to use it responsibly.

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

Nothing in the 14th Amendment or in any other constitutional provision suggests that the president may usurp legislative power to prevent a violation of the Constitution.

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.

When a President asserts constitutional powers he needs to be pretty certain he has those powers.

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

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.

Every American war has brought a struggle between Congress and the Executive over war powers. The Constitution is somewhat annoyingly ambiguous on the point declaring that the President is Commander in Chief but empowering Congress to provide for the common defense, declare war, and raise and support armies.

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.

It should be remembered that the president cannot, by executive order, do things that affects the public at large unless there is some Congressional basis for it.

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

Trump's attacks against the judiciary reflect his view that only he should be able to decide what he can and cannot do.

The Constitution gives the president of the United States an extraordinarily wide grant of authority to use the power of the pardon.

When the president acts in absence of a congressional grant of authority, he can rely only upon his own independent powers. When the president takes measures incompatible with the express or implied will of Congress, his power is at its lowest ebb.

No power but Congress can declare war, but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war?

Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate force' in the agreed-upon text. This last-minute change would have given the president broad authority to exercise expansive powers not just overseas-where we all understood he wanted authority to act-but right here in the United States, potentially against American citizens. I could see no justification for Congress to accede to this extraordinary request for additional authority. I refused.

What do we do with a president who can basically change what Congress passed by attaching a letter saying I don't agree with this part or that part?

I think where I get frustrated at times was the belief that the president can do anything if he just decides he wants to do it.

When the President decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from congress.

The President of the United States has a much wider power than the German Kaiser had, for he depended on parliament.

It seems with every new day, we have a new veto threat from the president.

I'm a little uncomfortable with the idea of judges overruling presidents on national security matters.

What [President Donald Trump] is doing is taking away the executive overreach that President [Barack] Obama did which we thought exceeded his powers.

Even the country's first president chafed at the limits placed on him by the writers of the U.S. Constitution. From the nature of the Constitution, ... I must approve all the parts of a bill, or reject it in toto.