Legislative Weakness Quotes

We have a major crisis in the system. the Preisdent is so powerful that he overehelms the rest of the Government. .... This has been going on for over 50 years. Each president adds more and more power.... Congress is crippled and cowardly .... They don't use their appropriations power. They have been passing continuing resultions for 20 years.

Regulating the prices of goods in general would be an endless task, and no legislator has ever been weak enough to think of attempting it.

The consensus for a strong, independent Executive arose from the Framers' experience in the Revolution and under the Articles of Confederation. They had seen that the War had almost been lost and was a bumbling enterprise because of the lack of strong Executive leadership.

When it comes to the media, the Congress is no match for the President.

In their hours of timidity the Congress becomes subservient to the importunities of organized minorities that the President comes more and more to stand as the champion of the rights of the whole country.

The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.

When you have a gutless Congress a lawless president can do pretty much what he chooses.

To the extent that congressional powers have ebbed as a result of failure to develop timely and coherent responses to public problems, Congress has only itself to blame for its own predicament.