Quotes About Executive

There's simply no way the day-to-day operations of a polity as huge as the Solarian League—even if it loses half its systems, which it won't—can be effectively overseen by a legislative branch. And the judiciary can't, either, because in the nature of things, the wheels of justice turn way too slowly. And letting the executive branch supervise and regulate itself is a recipe for disaster.

Governance is a descriptive label that is used to highlight the changing nature of the policy process in recent decades.In particular, it sensitizes us to the ever increasing variety of terrains and actors involved in the making of public policy.Thus governance demands that we consider all the actors and locations beyond the 'core executive' involved in the policy making process.

Poor girl. She would change. The idealism would vanish once she saw how hypocritical the whole game was, and what luxuries lay outside university. When she left, she'd want it all: the executive job in London, the flat, car, salary, wine-bar. She would chuck it all in for a slice of pie.

To say that I'm going to veto something that I haven't read is just - or sign something that I haven't read - I don't think is good policy for any chief executive.

There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.

Vice President Joe Biden believes that illegal immigrants are citizens. Obama believes that some Americans who join Islamist groups are citizens, while others are not. Who is an American? Whomever the executive branch deems an American. Who isn't? It depends on whether Obama ate his Wheaties or not.

I've never been a vice president. Ever. Always chairman.

There's a huge discrepancy between the Jon Stewart who goes on TV every night and the Jon Stewart who runs The Daily Show with joyless rage," said an anonymous former executive. It was something that Bob Wiltfong witnessed

To those in the executive branch who say 'just trust us' when it comes to secret and warrantless surveillance of domestic communications, I say, 'Remember your history.'

To be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

He did tell me that he wanted to get me into the movies — well, I pretended not to hear it. They just can't help themselves. It's a male sickness to tell every girl that they are the top executive of a film studio or at least that they have great connections. All I'm asking myself is if there are still any girls left who fall for that.

One idea is wasted, one intuitive is frustrated, and one sensing executive has to deal with a resentful subordinate.

What Susanne Jaeggi has found with the N-back, what Torkel has shown with working memory training, what others have found with meditation, and what we have shown with video games—they are all different ways of getting at the same underlying mechanisms," she said. "We're all training the flexible allocation of executive and attentional resources.

It's the central executive in your brain that notices that the floor is dirty. It forms an executive attentional set for "mop the floor" and then constructs a worker attentional set for doing the actual mopping.

I think people are looking for a president who has views and who sticks to those views. So, I think Governor Romney, Governor Perry, Governor Huntsman are all terrific candidates. I think we got a chance to elect a real, executive leader.

Among the most serious allegations a federal court can address are that an Executive agency has targeted citizens for mistreatment based on their political views. No citizen - Republican or Democrat, Socialist or libertarian - should be targeted or even have to fear being targeted on those grounds.

In so many areas, it is critical to our Nation's future that we restore and preserve in their full vigor our Founding principles. Not the least of these is the Framers' vision of a strong, independent Executive, chosen by the country as a whole.

President Barack Obama cried during his announcement of new executive actions designed to curb gun violence in the United States by restricting the access to firearms of those who present a clear danger to themselves or others and improving access to mental health services for those in need.

If you think Barr's Justice Department will take a single step to confront Trump or his cronies with any kind of challenge, think again. His hyper-maximalist vision of executive power borders on the fetishistic.

President Obama's biggest advocates believe that Americans are ready to embrace his vision for the United States: a less muscular America on the world stage, an America with a more controlling executive branch and less conflict in the legislative branch, an America in which the government takes care of us, be we Pajama Boys or Julias.

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

Few women are able to relax in the classic executive pose, mainly because too few women are executives.

An inclusive narrative structure provides the executive brain with the best template and strategy for the oversight and coordination of the functions of mind. A story well told, containing conflicts and resolutions, gestures and expressions, and thoughts flavored with emotion, connects people ad integrates neural networks

JOHN A. DAVIS is the president of the Owner Managed Business Institute in Santa Barbara. Formerly, he was a member of the faculty at the University of Southern California. Dr. Davis has organized family business executive programs at several leading business schools, and consults to