Presidential Intervention Quotes

When McCarthy attacked General Ralph Zwicker, it was a turning point in President Eisehnower’s approach to dealing with McCarthy. During the Battle of the Bulge of WWII, then Colonel Ralph Zwicker’s unit was particularly heroic and successful against superior forces while holding the North of The Bulge. Eisenhower had personally and publicly expressed his thanks to Zwicker and his outfit. When McCarthy went after such an American Hero, the President started a serious of actions that would contribute to McCarthy’s Senate censure and downfall.

Like I say, if [Barack] Obama really, really wanted to use the law to stop acts of militant terrorism, he would get hold of the architects of Sharia, as the American president, and he'd say, "You know, you guys, you're gonna have to moderate this. This is not good. It's not right."

The Constitution should contain a provision that every officer of the Government who should neglect or refuse to extend the protection guaranteed in the Constitution should be subject to capital punishment; and then the president of the United States would not say, "Your cause is just, but I can do nothing for you."

We need to keep trying to rescue the Constitution from the President.

Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.

The last issue I remember where a president was involved was in the capital punishment of 1993 blasts convict Yaqub Memon. Otherwise, in your life, in my life, how does a president make a difference? Has a president ever stated his point of view on anything?

Many other cities could go the way that Los Angeles went last night unless the president is willing to step in and take some strong action in terms of letting people know that he cares about this issue.