Us Governance Quotes

The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and the bankers went anew to grab the riches. I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt civilization

The Democrats cannot find Romney fingerprints on what's happening to this country. Every fingerprint is Barack Obama's, Joe Biden's, Nancy Pelosi's, Harry Reid's, Barney Frank's, you name it, Eric Holder.

American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.

The United States is dangerously close to becoming a democracy instead of a republic.

No State without its consent shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.

The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.

The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often.

The Congress decides when to make war and the President decides how to make war.

The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.

Your [the American] constitution is all sail and no anchor.

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

As a general rule, the United States government is run by lawyers who occasionally take advice from economists. Others interested in helping the lawyers out need not apply.

We can’t have 535 Secretaries of State.

America and the world are paying a high price for devotion to the extreme anti-government ideology embraced by Donald Trump and his Republican party.

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

The Framers intended the Senate to be the principle architect of foreign policy. Had original intent prevailed, we would speak of the imperial Senate, not the imperial Presidency.

The United States compared to a number of our competitors is the only government in the world with any kind of safeguards, any kind of checks and balances. They may in many respects need to be strengthened and people need to be reassured, and they need to have their protections embodied in law.

I think that Goldman Sachs and the Pentagon determine more of America's outcome then any president or any congress, that sounds a bit cynical, but I think I am right.

America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things.

It's important to use executive orders. Every president since Washington has.

The Founding Fathers didn’t intend for the lawyers to run this country

Has our nation preserved, protected and defended the Constitution of the United States?

[Donald Trump] has to have and he said he is going to have a transition element for those states, like in Florida, he's, you know, Republican governors who have put in some form of it. They has to be a transition through it.

Congress constitutionally lacks general police powers.

The Federal government we have today is unimaginable in the perspective of the Americans who debated the ratification of the original constitution.