Legislative Branch Quotes

The House Republicans are not the enemy, they’re the opposition. The Senate is the enemy.

The difference between being a member of the House and being a member of the Senate is the difference between chicken salad and chicken shit.

I am the last President of the United States.

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty.

Congress is the appropriate place to make laws about our country's immigration policy; it is not something that the president gets to decide on his own.

The filibuster is the most important check on raw Presidential power.

First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.

In the White House there is always struggle and contention.

Most decisions involving the way that Americans live their lives are not made in the courts.

Our Constitution wisely assigns both joint and separate roles to each branch of the government; and a President and a Congress who hold each other in mutual respect will neither permit nor attempt any trespass.

Holding Congressional hearings is the purview of the majority, and during the first years of the Obama administration, Democrats could not be bothered.

I'm very proud to be a member of the Congress. And I'm proud to serve with people like Mike Doyle.

I'm proud of Congress as a body. At the end of the day, we're the people's house, and we should be very mindful that we represent the people.

I will continue to ask the president and his subordinates to work with Congress rather than against it.

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 ...

If the presidency is the head of the American body politic, Congress is its gastrointestinal tract. Its vast and convoluted inner workings may be mysterious and unpleasant, but in the end they excrete a great deal of material whose successful passage is crucial to our nation's survival.

If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.

A Senator is not God or a doctor.

The court's authority must be clear, and it must not blatantly intervene in the decisions of the legislative and executive branches.

A committee of the Senate ought to confer with a committee of the President through a head of a department and not with the Chief Magistrate, for in the latter case a committee of that House is equal to the President.

I do plan to be on the podium with President Clinton when she's inaugurated in January 2017 - but I'm going to be sitting with the senators.

I think that less presidential interference the better.

I'm very happy where I am: I'm a senator from Ohio.

Under our Constitution, presidents have something called 'veto power.

The foundation of English liberty and of all free government is a right in the people to participate in their legislative council.