Quotes About Checks

The first club that reopened in New Orleans was Caesar's, and they called me immediately and said let's do a regular night with you here. So we started FEMA Fridays. It was the only club open in the city, and a lot of people had a lot of money from Katrina, the checks and stuff, so the joy inside that club - I don't think that'll ever come back.

The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.

As a member of Congress, a coequal branch of government designed by our founders to provide checks and balances on the executive branch, I believe that lawmakers must fulfill our oversight duty as well as keep the American people informed of the current danger.

I don't disagree with all of what you do," he said, "but I think it's entirely unjust that you receive checks from the government for your homosexuality." I stared at him with my mouth full of fries. "Oh, it's not that bad," I said, "I only get half as much because I'm bisexual.

but it also meant that there were checks within Parliament against any single group becoming too powerful and abusing its power. It was the critical factor in the emergence of pluralistic political institutions.

Of course we can establish constitutional checks and balances, but those won't mean a thing unless citizens make sure the safeguards are taken seriously. The greedy and the power-hungry will always look for ways to break the rules, or twist them to their advantage.

Rather than signalling the aspiration for system of checks and balances against absolute power, democracy become a euphemism for majority rule.

The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it.

Hank was happy to cash the checks as the palm court orchestras played his songs, but on a far deeper level he was suspicious of the trend, seeing it as a dilution of his music. "These pop bands," he told an interviewer in Charleston, South Carolina, "will play our hillbilly songs when they cain't eat any other way.

Oh, and you're not on our bank account yet, so he probably left you a few checks signed." "He left signed checks?" she asked, a little horrified.

Oh, and you're not on our bank account yet, so he probably left you a few checks signed." "He left signed checks?" she asked, a little horrified. Annie patted her hand. "Honey, this ain't LA.

I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good.

fashionable pink and black "Queen Charlotte" checks.

democracy and freedom began bouncing all over the world like bad checks

I think it's a very powerful notion, the notion that our personal views, although closely held, are not necessarily right. That part of what is noble is making sure there are checks and balances and a plurality of opinions.

The genius of the American system is not freedom; the genius of the American system is checks and balances. Nobody gets all the power. Everybody is watching everybody else. It is as if the founding fathers knew, intrinsically, that the soul of man, unwatched, is perverse.

I am sure because I am confident in the idea of the United States of America. I believe that the combination of checks and balances and a free press and our democratically elected representatives will expose charlatans. I believe in the good sense of the American people, and I know in my soul that truth will win out.

With borrowed light her countenance triform Hence fills and empties to enlighten the earth, And in her pale dominion checks the night.

The framers of our Constitution arranged things so that political action would have to be filtered through institutions that require consultation and compromise, and would depend on a system of frequent elections, checks and balances, the autonomy of the civil service, civilian control of the military, the writing of laws and regulations, and their impartial enforcement. And all this would have to be done at three levels of government.

Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today.

The constitutional machinery of limited and enumerated powers, separation of powers, and checks and balances all aimed to prevent such an "improper or wicked project," and America's vast size, even in 1787, ensured that a multitude of factions—special interests—would bar any single one from tyrannizing over the others.

Trust to a Mercant is a complicated thing. It usually requires years of acquaintance, several background checks, and a probationary period.

That he had received these checks now he put down to human intervention – officialdom trying to 'control the situation' using their usual method of clamping down on people's rights.

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.