Quotes About Imperial Presidency

#1. I'm old enough to remember Richard Nixon. They called it the imperial presidency when he was refusing to spend money that Congress had appropriated.

Angus King

#2. The Supreme Court must serve as an independent check on abuses by the executive branch and the protector of our liberties, not a cheerleader for an imperial presidency.

Edward Kennedy

#3. I really want Congress to do its job, the constitutional power that they have to halt an imperial presidency, to halt this fundamental transformation of America that is making us an unrecognizable mess of a nation at this time.

Sarah Palin

#4. You have an imperial presidency that makes Richard Nixon look like a boy scout.

Allen West

#5. Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies.

Vera Nazarian

#6. Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency.

David Mamet

#7. Now that nation called Israel, never has had any peace in forty years and she will never have any peace because there can never be any peace structured on injustice, thievery, lying and deceit and using the name of God to shield your dirty religion under His holy and righteous name.

Louis Farrakhan

#8. Our forces will not be on the sidelines.

John Abizaid

#9. We were of the valley. Born in the valley, of families planted too deep to leave even when they knew their daughter might be taken; raised in the valley, drinking of whatever power also fed the Wood.

Naomi Novik

#10. When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.

Park Chan-wook

#11. Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge.

Muriel Barbery

#12. To those of you who have lost your way, may my story serve as a reminder that life is a journey. The lessons we learn along the way are not for our sake alone. We are obligated to share them

Nancy B. Brewer

#13. You don't need a Master's in Theology to love people.

D.R. Silva

#14. We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.

Michael Bloomberg

#15. I actually have no aspirations to ride a motorcycle ever again. It's exhausting. You get cold.

Ally Walker

#16. We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege.

Lawton Chiles

#17. We must ask ourselves how many times others would benefit more from our silence than from our words.

Henri Nouwen