Quotes About Government

The president appoints the judges. Your lives and your children's lives can change by all of these appellate court judges who will be appointed who will reinterpret laws, and things can change.

You let Congress make the laws. You work with the Congress as the president to make sure that those laws are accurate and to the best of our ability, but you don't turn it over to the federal judges to make those laws.

The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.

Historically, figuring out what to do to the tax code has been almost as contentious a political issue as judicial appointments.

I have often said there are few responsibilities more important than governors making judicial appointments.

Judicial review has developed since the 1970s as a way for individuals to challenge decisions taken by the State.

Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.

You have a good judicial system in the U.S., as you have learned from the Nixon-Watergate period.

I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.

A president shouldn't tell the judiciary what to do.

People in the U.S. pay a great deal of money to support their judiciary, and they have an actual right to see how it functions.

Judicial activism must be lessened, and the judiciary should do its work and let politicians work.

As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.

After 23 June 2016, the U.K. has to reorient national policy on many dimensions.

From December 2007 through June 2009, average federal employee salaries increased by 6.6 percent, while average private-sector salaries increased by 3.9 percent.

It's federal jurisdiction, so the federal government can approve pipelines.

We think climate change is important enough to get its own select committee. It would be in addition to the Energy and Commerce Committee's jurisdiction.

I have never served on a jury because MPs were exempted - or banned, I think.

Even if we did achieve what we wanted with a very small state, we'd just be resetting the clock back to 1776, and it would roll forward exactly the same way again.

The Government cannot just be consumed by Brexit. There is so much more to do.

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?

No one ever built the filibuster rule. It just kind of was created.

Law is just one public institution, but it is a cornerstone of society. When law goes, everything goes.

In a lot of ways, civil rights division is the conscience of the Justice Department. You can almost measure what kind of Justice Department you have by what kind of civil rights division that you have.