Chuck Grassley Quotes

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

The Congress is getting too powerful.

Forget about war or disease or poverty. The apocalypse is when America's elected president is no longer supervised by the unelected ruling establishment.

Today, the most important political instrument in the hands of the opposition is the presidential veto.

Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged Bush to take a stronger stand against what Cheney sees as congressional intrusions into the executive branch.

Separation of powers means that the president cannot control Congress.

The whole power of the national government is gradually but surely passing under the complete control of our Presidents.

An attorney general has to stand up [to the President], and sometimes he will be replaced.

The president is the government.

At present the direction of our affairs, foreign and domestic, has again come to be almost wholly in the hands of the Senate, because there are in the Senate a few courageous men who have dared to take control from the Executive.

There can only be one government, and the president has certain roles and duties, which are to hold the second key on money and on people but not to go and check the government or tell the government what it is supposed to do.

Denying the president a constitutional voice is the real threat to our system of separated powers.

I am the Federal Government.

I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.

The office of the president is the most powerful in the world. It is also, at times, the most powerless.

We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king.

Indian president does not determine policy. Here President is not the policy maker. In the name of the president, the cabinet takes the policy decision.

The theory of our governments is opposed to the deposit of unlimited power anywhere. The executive, the legislative, and the judicial branches of these governments are all of limited and defined powers

I decline submitting my officials rights and powers to the determination of a coordinate department, usurping a jurisdiction unprecedented in the history of our country, and fraught with the greatest danger to our institutions. I shall deem it my imperative duty to repel, with all of the force vested in this department, any infringement upon my rights and powers.

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

The most important benefit that I can confer on the country by my Presidency is to insist upon the entire independence of the executive and legislative branches of government

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

It had better be known in the outset whether the President is the head of the government or the registering clerk of the Senate.

I would dare to dispute the integrity of the President on any occasion my country's welfare demanded it.... The President is neither an absolute monarch nor a descendant of a sun goddess.

One party should not have the power to impeach the President of the other party.