Presidential Limits Quotes

The United States ought to be able to choose for its president anybody that it wants, regardless of the number of terms he has served.

A President is not elected to do as he pleases. He is elected to do as the people please.

Trump hasn't really done anything yet to abuse his powers. I don't even know if he knows what all his powers are as president. And that worries me. He will learn. After he learns how the presidency works, he could become much more dangerous, because his personality doesn't change. Once presidents find their powers, they don't give them up. They use them.

No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.

I've yet to meet a President who controlled the CIA.

For presidential power to meaningfully expand, it is not enough for a president to simply make a power grab.

No President has yet repealed the business cycle.

There are limits on what a president can achieve or do, but the expectations are so great.

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.

The president of the United States can't even fire his chef. I'm not kidding.

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

The Constitution grants only Congress - not the president - the power 'to borrow money on the credit of the United States.'

As Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated, even a state of war is not a blank check for a president to do whatever he wants.

When the court that handpicked you to be president tells you you've overstepped your bounds, you've overstepped your bounds.

People think that the President of the United States has the power for debt forgiveness. He does not. He can postpone. He can delay. But he does not have that power. That has to be an act of Congress.

I believe in term limits for presidents because I think that there is no doubt I'm a better president now than I was when I start.

I don't want to be the president of the world. I'm the President of the United States.

The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest.

It's not his job, the president's, to pick winners and losers, nor to pass judgment on anybody.

President Obama was the first president not to abide by the limits in the general election.

The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime.