Barbra Streisand Quotes

The [president] has no particle of spiritual jurisdiction. . . .

Egypt has a presidential system. The president runs the state. Who the president is matters profoundly.

The President is the direct representative of the American people and is elected by the people and responsible to them.

In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development.

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

We have a very vivid democracy, but it's very fragile, partly because of our inner conflict. What is the real authority, the Knesset or … the synagogue? Are we a democracy or a theocracy.

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

In Islam, there is no difference between the state and the religion. The religion is the state, the state is the religion

When choosing the president of the United States and the leader of the free world, your desire to have a beer with a candidate should be your last concern. Let's keep our president in the Oval Office and out of the bars.

God has appointed two kinds of government in the world, which are distinct in their nature, and ought never to be confounded together; one of which is called civil, the other ecclesiastical government.

Even if you assume presidents were democratically elected they still have no right to keep secrets from the American people.

We're going to make sure that the people who run for office and get elected are the ones who are going to work for the American people.

I don't want to commit myself in advocating a definite republican constitution which will get bogged down with the question of who would elect the President and when.

Harry Truman proves that old adage that any man can become President of the United States.

The president doesn't have the authority to change the law or ignore the law, and that's what Obama tried to do.

In Britain the government has to come down in front of Parliament every day to explain its actions, but here the President never answers directly to Congress.

With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.

The future of any leader or political systems is to be determined by the people of the country.

The Constitution of the United States doesn't change the powers of the president based on the number by which you get elected.

I want to elect the next president.

This isn’t hyperbole to say that we are staring the death of democracy in the eyes, right now. The centerpiece of our democracy is that we observe court rulings. Criminal court rulings, civil court rulings and constitutional court rulings. No one is above the law. And whether we like it or not, the courts interpret the law. If the President of the United States says, ‘You know what, I don’t care what the courts say, I’m going to do whatever the hell I want,’ that’s essentially the end of the rule of law,” he declared. “Because if the President isn’t bound by our laws and the Constitution, then why would anybody else be bound by our laws and the Constitution? …. If they were to openly declare that because they disagree with, for instance, a court’s order to reopen USAID, or to get Elon Musk out of the Treasury Department, simply because on the merits, they disagree with the court’s ruling, then you are clearly in the most serious constitutional crisis.

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

I know both Secretary [Hillary] Clinton and President [Barack] Obama were very gracious and I respect that a lot in the way they handled it the day after, two days after. But I wish they would says something about it too. Because after all, these are supporters of President Obama and Hillary Clinton and maybe they could say something about this. Really not the right thing in the democracy.

Everything changes when you become president. Everything. The things that you've said during the campaign on military strategy and policy, it automatically changes when you become a commander-in-chief.