System Of Checks And Balances Quotes

#1. Defeat is most devastating at the moment of victory Saint Dane

D.J. MacHale

#2. You should live in such a way that looking back at your past later on in the future, you will thank God for your life and for what He has done for you

Sunday Adelaja

#3. As a member of Congress, I believe Congress must provide oversight of actions by the Executive Branch as our system of checks and balances requires.

Charles B. Rangel

#4. The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.

Blaise Pascal

#5. When I started out, I was absolutely awful, I had no voice, I didn't have a lot of stage presence and most of the interpretive intensity that I brought to the experience was actually terror.

Jimmy Webb

#6. When you're elected to Congress, you take a vow to uphold the Constitution and its system of checks and balances. That vow doesn't say, 'Unless it's politically uncomfortable.'

Chellie Pingree

#7. It turns out, after a lot of exploration, that I'm not really a princess. A swell gal, sure, but not a princess.

Julie Klam

#8. The framers hated the tyranny of King George, but they were also afraid of the mob. That's why they put so many checks and balances into our system, to guard against the excesses of a government that might be inflamed by public passion or perverted by a dictator's whim.

David Ignatius

#9. Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death.

George Herbert

#10. Where do you want to go, my heart?" "Anywhere - anywhere, out of this world.

CrimethInc.

#11. I think umpires have too much power, without any system of checks and balances and the more money a player makes, the more the umpire tries to show off that power to him. Unfortunately, since I signed my contract my strike zone has suddenly become a lot larger.

Ozzie Smith

#12. I am quite a romantic person, really, and I should have put that into my music earlier, but I was probably denying it ... I didn't want to be soft because I felt I had to be so hard to get people to believe in me.

Billy Idol

#13. I've been really lucky that I've been exposed to a lot of lovely, talented people who are not jerks, and I would like to continue that streak.

Mackenzie Davis

#14. Procrastination and impatience form a system of checks and balances.

Mason Cooley

#15. And he exercised uncommon tact with his men, meeting them where they stood, rather than demanding that they always be the ones accommodating themselves. I have learned over time that this quality is rare in any man, even more so in a leader.

Geraldine Brooks

#16. The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power.

Roy Moore

#17. In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment.

Dennis Cardoza

#18. [Magna Carta provided] a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool.

Winston Churchill

#19. Our carefully constructed system of checks and balances is being negated by the rise of a fourth branch, an administrative state of sprawling departments and agencies that govern with increasing autonomy and decreasing transparency.

Jonathan Turley

#20. In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system,
non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor,
judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush's
order calls this Soviet-style abomination 'a full and fair trial.

William Safire

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

Peter Mansfield

#22. Hell is not a place, it's a state of mind and body; hell is obsession with a voice, a face, a name.

Susan Kay

#23. We need a return to transparency and a system of checks and balances, to a president who respects Congress' role of oversight and accountability.

Hillary Clinton

#24. I am running to fix the economy, restore the constitutional system of checks and balances and to end this game of crony capitalism by the ruling class in Washington.

Dave Brat

#25. In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances.

Robert W. Welch Jr.