Quotes About The Three Branches

#1. As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for a reason. Neither the executive branch or the legislative branch should use the third branch to a pursue a partisan agenda.

Dan Pfeiffer

#2. Our forefathers understood the dangers of consolidated power. This is why they provided for a separation of powers within the U.S. Government between the three branches. For the very same reason, the First Amendmants provides for a separation of church and state.

Barry McGowan

#3. It is disconcerting to learn that while 73 percent of Americans can name the Three Stooges, only 42 percent can name the three branches of government.6

Parker J. Palmer

#4. When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.

David Mamet

#5. I'm looking for a Justice who appreciates the awesome responsibility that she will be given, if confirmed. A Justice who understands the gravity of the office and who respects the very different roles that the Constitution provides for each of the three branches of government.

Amy Klobuchar

#6. The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.

Michele Bachmann

#7. The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.

William Weld

#8. The Three Branches of Government: Money, Television, and Bullshit

P. J. O'Rourke

#9. God's purpose in redemption is to make worshipers out of rebels.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#10. Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family
Oh how hideous it is
To see three generations of one house gathered together!
It is like an old tree with shoots,
And with some branches rotted and falling.

Ezra Pound

#11. The bayou came out in her voice more than it ever had before, and it sounded like an invitation to spend the night floating down a lazy canal together under the starlit night.

Christine Feehan

#12. Kate had dressed for battle, donning her finest pink muslin morning dress. With lace at her wrists and mother-of-pearl buttons at her throat, instead of that itchy servant's cloak, she felt capable of matching wits with anyone.

Courtney Milan

#13. Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts ... Beyond the range of human intellect.

Dante Alighieri

#14. People who appear to be resisting change may simply be the victim of bad habits. Habit, like gravity, never takes a day off.

Paul Gibbons

#15. It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#16. Finding something like that in a war is like finding an angel in hell so i kept it with me

Nicholas Sparks

#17. If you can feel it on your face, it's about three to five. Leaves in constant motion, six to eight or so. Small tree branches in constant motion, about ten. Large branches in constant motion, twelve to fifteen. Dorothy and Toto hurtling past thirty feet off the ground, time to go home.

Peter Lessler

#18. It would be so depressing to be a model and not get to say a word. There's no personality involved.

Olivia Wilde

#19. With my track record, I'll probably be able to screw up all three branches of government in about a week and a half.

Huntley Fitzpatrick

#20. The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Carl Bernstein

#21. You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President.

Chuck Schumer

#22. We are sworn to uphold the Constitution and law. And it has to be consistent and agreed upon with three branches of government - one can't overrule the other two.

Mike Huckabee

#23. You know, when you get to the New World and you develop your three branches of government and you have a civil society, you can just jettison all the barbarism I recommended in the first books.

Sam Harris

#24. The Mediterranean Sea with its various branches, penetrating far into the great Continent, forms the largest gulf of the ocean, and, alternately narrowed by islands or projections of the land and expanding to considerable breadth, at once separates and connects the three divisions of the Old World.

Theodor Mommsen

#25. In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States.

Robert W. Welch Jr.

#26. I finally figured out how hard the battle between your love for me and your love for art, your future, and your career must've been. It just hurts to know art won, is all." ~Gage

Shanora Williams

#27. I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

James Comey

#28. First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#29. I was brought up with two sisters, so I do know about a three-way dynamic. It's a complex one, because it's easy for one to get left out and the others to gang up. In my family, we were all pretty up for it, but the dynamics would constantly change.

Anna Chancellor

#30. It's time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother!

Mitt Romney

#31. There's no traditional three act structure - or beginning, middle and end - to a family tree. By its nature, it has almost infinite different branches, or episodes, to explore in every direction.

Jim Piddock

#32. Hunter's stomach was perfection - each taut muscle tight and totally lickable. Not that I'd ever licked a man's stomach before, but now I got why someone would want to. I was in six-pack heaven.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#33. Experience has instructed us that no skill in the science of government has yet been able to discriminate and define, with sufficient certainty, its three great provinces the legislative, executive, and judiciary; or even the privileges and powers of the different legislative branches.

James Madison

#34. The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than a merely geographic expression.

George Will

#35. 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

#36. Why is it men think beating on each other fixes anything?'
'Why do women think eating chocolate does? It's the nature of the beast.

Nora Roberts