Check And Balance Quotes

#1. When I grew up, shame was used as a tool for check and balance. If you stood a chance of hearing someone say, "Shame on you," or "You should be ashamed of yourself," you thought twice. It doesn't seem to be a factor today.

Robert Redford

#2. While abolishing judgeships and lower federal courts is a blunt tool and one whose use is warranted only in the most extreme of circumstances ... it is one of many possibilities to check and balance the judiciary.

Newt Gingrich

#3. If you're getting different prescriptions from different doctors, there has to be some sort of check and balance in there somewhere.

Nikki Sixx

#4. Together, we can create something new, something bold, and something to act as a check and balance to Washington's out-of-touch agenda.

Kevin McCarthy

#5. The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

Amy Goodman

#6. I think we're probably more unified than ever before because we're in a battle for survival. Not only for survival as the Republican Party, but survival of the check and balance system in our government.

Bill Scott

#7. If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress.

Patty Murray

#8. The country is in some trouble, because the media, which is supposed to provide a check and balance on government, has decided to stop doing that as a collective entity.

Craig Newmark

#9. Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We're supposed to be holding those in power accountable. We're not supposed to be their megaphone. That's what the corporate media have become.

Amy Goodman

#10. I don't care what party you belong to or what your background is. If you believe we are headed in the wrong direction, and believe there needs to be a check and balance on the President and Congress, then join my campaign.

Timothy Griffin

#11. Everyone else has some interest in economic growth and development, which often happens at the expense of the environment and community. We need the other side to join this to check and balance.

Ma Jun

#12. That's the fundamental question. Do we have a check and balance system? Do we have three equal branches or do we have one supreme branch, not just the Supreme Court? That's the fundamental question.

Mike Huckabee

#13. The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism is balanced and based on fact - based indeed on solid journalistic work.

Malcolm Turnbull

#14. I think Americans are - particularly, independent voters are looking at Washington, and they see too many taxes, too much spending, too much debt, too many Washington takeovers, and they want to provide a check and a balance to what they see as a runaway, overreaching Washington government.

Lamar Alexander

#15. Your time is your life.

Elizabeth Grace Saunders

#16. I am usually a pacer. I go to the balcony to check the sight lines way up there, to check the sound system to see how the balance is.

Maury Yeston

#17. I was at an ATM and this old lady asked me to help check her balance, So I pushed her over.

Hudson Moore

#18. Being able to check your balance on the phone is the best invention ever.

Lemar

#19. It is not the balance in your check book that makes life count. It is the investment one makes in the lives of others.

John Paul Warren

#20. The gut-check message is do we have the right balance in our culture? Or are we in a position where hero worship and winning at all costs has subordinated our core values?

Mark Emmert

#21. Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor also brought balance to our highest court; most recently, as been repeated many times, when she cautioned about how war doesn't give a blank check.

Joe Biden

#22. I love your personality, I said with wide eyes and an open smile. I had used this look before when a bank teller at Wells Fargo had threatened to put a ten-day hold on a check from my father because my average balance was $3.56.

Chelsea Handler

#23. I eat tons of green veggies to keep my PH balance in check.

Valerie Cruz

#24. The universe is all about balance. The forces of light and darkness are meant to keep a check on one another. If one becomes too powerful and starts overrunning the other, that balance will be upset. For the tyranny of virtue is as unbearable as the stranglehold of vice.

Shatrujeet Nath

#25. You can use power for good or bad, for control or freedom. You grew up watching your dad abuse it one way and it made you take the opposite direction. That's what we all think. Everything's about balance. That's what sustains life. Maybe your role is to keep your dad in check?

Katie Kacvinsky