Governmental Authority Quotes

Public business … must always be done by somebody…. If wise men decline it, others will not; if honest men refuse it, others will not.

Tribal sovereign immunity is an anachronism in today’s world.

All I'm going to say is I put my hand on a Bible, and I raised my right hand and swore to uphold the Constitution of the state of Florida.

If we carefully consider what our constitution is, we will conclude that it is, in fact, a limited monarchy.

The Secretary of State exists only to recognize the existence of a world which Congress would rather ignore ... Since the first day the Senate existed, it has always intrigued against the Secretary of State ...

We are not under the command of the military. They are under ours as a Congress.

When you start messing with the Constitution and what this country was founded on - our baseline is what we call it - it just opens up too many doors.

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

To govern Italy is not only impossible, it is useless.

Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.

As lawmakers, we swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution.

In the U.S. Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House.

The president is the leader of the nation. The president brings people together, does the deals, does the trades, knocks the heads together. The president leads.

The idea of dual sovereignty rests on the premise that the power of the states to prosecute crimes existed before the creation of the federal government, and is reserved to them by the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution.

Congressmen take an independent oath to protect and defend the Constitution. They work with the President; they do not work for the President.

It is not my call ... it is not for the judicial branch to decide.

It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country [America].

President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'

The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government.

A commission presenting evidence doesn't do a Jedi mind trick and make state legislators in some state suddenly pass a bill.

It's incredibly flattering to be a U.S. senator, which I want to stay at for a long time.

Neither politics of chaos and anarchy has succeeded earlier and nor will succeed in future.

Most people who call themselves conservatives can't explain the American value system.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

The president today is the seat of all power.