Tom Cotton Quotes

Congress has a constitutional right to an authoritative voice in declaring and proscribing the foreign policy of the United States ... and it is the constitutional duty of the President to respect that policy ...

Any President must depend upon congressional support in order to implement his foreign policy, for Congress has power to regulate foreign commerce, to raise armies and maintain navies, to lay and collect taxes for the common defense, and to declare war.

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

Congress has a constitutional right to an authoritative voice in declaring and prescribing the foreign policy of the United States. It is the constitutional duty of the Executive Department to respect that policy, not less in diplomatic negotiations than in the use of national force when authorized by law.

So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.

Sergei, the secretary of state of the United States does not have a conversation with the Russian foreign minister about overthrowing a democratically elected president.

The Senate are a branch of the treaty-making power, and by consulting them in advance of his own action upon important measures of foreign policy which may ultimately come before them for their consideration, the President secures harmony of action between that body and himself.

As members of Congress, we may disagree with the administration's position on foreign policy matters, but the fact remains: the Executive Branch is tasked with handling diplomatic matters.

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

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

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

Separation of powers means that the president cannot control Congress.

Under our Constitution the Congress alone has the power to declare war.

We have 535 Secretaries of State.

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

If our forefathers had wanted Congress to be the Commander in Chief, they would have said so.

Foreign policy is always a sticking point between Congress and the executive.

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

Congress cannot and should not run foreign policy.

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.

The Constitution provided an invitation to the President and Congress to struggle for the privilege of directing American foreign policy.

The Senate is not a rubber stamp!

Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

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

I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other at all times. Many times in history there has been complete disagreement between the two branches of the Government, and in these disagreements sometimes the Congress has won and sometimes the President has won.