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Quotes About Executive

I am a salesman, I am an executive, I look at budgets, I think about power politics, but then I am also a creative person.
~ Noah Hawley
I'm not an executive. I'm a creative person.
~ David Droga
Not one criminal charge has ever been brought to any bank executive associated with the 2008 crisis. And in fact, it gets worse. No bonuses and none of their equity was taken.
~ Steve Bannon
One of my chief criticisms of U.S. international policy is that Congress has largely abdicated its foreign policy-making responsibilities to the executive branch.
~ Chris Murphy
The Biden Administration's Executive Actions have attracted an influx of migrants seeking to take advantage of irresponsible and poorly thought-out immigration policy.
~ Madison Cawthorn
In reference to the Army and Navy, lately employed with so much distinction on active service, care shall be taken to insure the highest condition of efficiency; and in furtherance of that object, the Military and Naval Schools, sustained by the liberality of Congress, shall receive the special attention of the Executive.
~ Zachary Taylor
I don't know Channing Dungey well, but we have talked several times, and she seems like an amazing executive.
~ Kenya Barris
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
~ Richard M. Nixon
Only in 1962, when President John F. Kennedy issued an executive order prohibiting the use of federal funds to support racial discrimination in housing, did the FHA cease financing subdivision developments whose builders openly refused to sell to black buyers.
~ Richard Rothstein
In later decades, the role of the Vice President would be gradually and substantially enlarged—at the discretion of the President—but at the time of the 1960 election, that was where the office stood. No legislative powers, no executive powers, and obstacles, hitherto insurmountable obstacles, to obtaining any—except what the President might choose to give
~ Robert A. Caro
it cannot be the intention of Congress or the Executive Department (defendant) to provide the aged Private Ryans a discriminatory hemlock drink from the cup of life after reaching age sixty-five. If in fact that is the intention, then this government of William Jefferson Clinton is not worth fighting for.
~ Robert Coram
The economy is very different in the world that we're living in. And I think Americans are looking for executive leadership that actually has some experience of creating jobs.
~ Rick Perry
He was learning to curse his newly acquired status as resident genius.
~ Tom Clancy, Executive Orders
The power granted in the Constitution is thus expressed: "The Congress shall have power to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions." 169 It was to the Congress, not the Executive, to whom the power was delegated, and thus early was commenced a long series of usurpations of powers inconsistent with the purposes for which the Union was formed, and destructive of the fraternity it was designed to perpetuate.
~ Jefferson Davis
One Toyota executive stated the sentiment well, "Team members are the only appreciating asset we have. Everything else starts depreciating from the moment we buy it.
~ Jeffrey K. Liker
Siebel's business development executive admitted that all of the company's acquisitions have failed and noted that an internal study indicated that "cultural conflicts" were the cause in every case.5
~ Jeffrey Pfeffer
read Jack Welch's books about General Electric and his management approach and never encounter the phrase "GE jerks." Yet that is a term I first heard from a now-retired GE senior executive who reported directly to Mr. Welch.
~ Jeffrey Pfeffer
But Trump could never process any interest except his own, and he regarded all executive branch employees as working for him personally.
~ Jeffrey Toobin
It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
~ Andrew Jackson
An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this.
~ Hans Frank
And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers.
~ George Pataki
When Congress exercises the powers delegated to it by the Constitution, it may impose affirmative obligations on executive and judicial officers of state and local governments as well as ordinary citizens.
~ David Souter
We are an important check on the powers of the executive. Our consent is necessary for the president to appoint jurists and powerful government officials and, in many respects, to conduct foreign policy. Whether we are of the same party, we are not the president's subordinates. We are his equal!
~ John McCain
Any MP who deals with immigration a huge amount, which I do, is going to worry about giving powers to the executive to change immigration law without scrutiny.
~ Jess Phillips