Quotes About Executive

No, if there is an aspect of the executive branch of the government that needs looking at, I'm liable to be called in to look at it. But I'm not the only one.

Serving in the executive branch is very different than sounding off from an academic perch.

These days I'm pretty much a businessman.

When Barack Obama was asked about his lack of executive experience in 2008, he pointed to his successful campaign as proof he could manage the presidency.

The beauty of our court system is that anybody can enter the court and sue. Uh, you have to be appointed to be in the Executive Branch. You have to be elected to be in the Legislative Branch, but anybody can go into court.

If the president is allowed to govern by executive action, then the rule of law greatly suffers.

There was a break in the proceedings when Peter Greste was deported, and that was considered sufficient then to allow the executive to intervene.

We should not burden a sitting president with civil suits, criminal investigations, or criminal prosecutions.

I really liked 'Super 8'. If Steven Spielberg is an executive producer of anything, you know that it's going to be amazing!

Colonel Cargill was so awful a marketing executive that his services were much sought after by firms eager to establish losses for tax purposes. Throughout the civilized world, from Battery Park to Fulton Street, he was known as a dependable man for a fast tax write-off. His prices were high, for failure often did not come easily.

Colonel Cargill was so awful a marketing executive that his services were much sought after by firms eager to establish losses for tax purposes.

The efficient secret of the English Constitution may be described as the close union, the nearly complete fusion of the executive and legislative powers. According to the traditional theory, as it exists in all the books, the goodness of our constitution consists in the entire separation of the legislative and executive authorities, but in truth its merit consists in their singular approximation. The connecting link is the cabinet.

The 2000 election of George W. Bush as president gave Republicans what the Democrats have now, total control of the legislative and executive branches of government. When Bush came to office, federal spending was $1.788 trillion. When he left office, federal spending was $2.982 trillion.

No person of color has ever held a top executive post in his organization and even his suited security army inside the tower is virtually all white. Race

The testers found that training attention not only improved executive control; scores on nonverbal tests of intelligence also improved and the improvement was maintained for several months.

The question that the executive faced (should I invest in Ford stock?) was difficult, but the answer to an easier and related question (do I like Ford cars?) came readily to his mind and determined his choice. This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.

The executive's decision would today be described as an example of the affect heuristic, where judgments and decisions are guided directly by feelings of liking and disliking, with little deliberation or reasoning.

The damaged frontal regions normally play an important role in assessing or monitoring signals provided by other neural systems.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

The Executive is charged officially in the Departments under it with the disbursement of the public money, and is responsible for the faithful application of it to the purposes for which it is raised. The Legislature is the watchful guardian over the public purse. It is its duty to see that the disbursement has been honestly made.

Ask any good teacher or any business executive who's been in the trenches. They will tell you that attitude trumps ability every time.

it was not only the executive's right but his responsibility "to do whatever the needs of the people demand, unless the Constitution or the laws explicitly forbid him to do it.