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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. -- Earl Nightingale
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place. -- Thomas Jefferson
It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training. -- Ulysses S. Grant
Executive: a man who makes quick decisions and is sometimes right. -- Kin Hubbard
When direction and meaning are confined to Executive Leadership, value is minimized. -- Bob Anderson
Monitor, transparently, and enforce the separation of Democracy powers: Legislative; Executive; Judicial -- Miguel Reynolds Brandao
The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war. -- Roger Sherman
A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. -- James Madison
On August 28, 1933, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6260, outlawing the constitutional right of U.S. citizens to own gold. -- Michael Maloney
Life is very good. I'm the president and Chief Executive Officer of the Wireless trade association, the CTIA. -- Steve Largent
Executive power in any nation arguably has more in common with executive power in another country than with the citizens it should serve. -- Nick Harkaway
Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president. -- Tom Rice
I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch. -- Bob Woodward
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
William Henry Harrison, who died of pneumonia in April of 1841, after only one month in office, was the first Chief Executive to hide his physical frailties. -- Robert Dallek
I am pleased that the President has signed an Executive Order this week requiring federal agencies to disclose information about prices and quality of healthcare services. -- Timothy Murphy
The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it. -- James Madison
While I believe that my lengthy career provides sufficient evidence for consideration of my nomination, I am convinced the efforts to obtain Executive Branch materials and information will continue. -- Harriet Miers
We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body -- Thomas Jefferson
Question Period is not part of the legislative process,and has nothing to do with it. It is a means of monitoring the Executive that the Government cannot evade. -- John Allen Fraser
I took a look around the office. ... I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that I would not be back there again." (On leaving the Executive Office Building) -- Richard M. Nixon
Executive power is exercised by the President of the Governing Board who, with the title of President of the Republic of Chile, administers the state and is the Supreme Chief of the Nation. -- Augusto Pinochet
The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many. -- Thomas Jefferson
It is placing the Executive and the Movement in an absolutely wrong position to be hawking your conscience round from body to body asking to be told what you ought to do with it. -- Ernest Bevin
It will be the duty of the Executive, with sufficient appropriations for the purpose, to prosecute unsparingly all who have been engaged in depriving citizens of the rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II. -- Xavier Becerra
RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation. -- Ambrose Bierce
The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but to have only such influence as the force of their reasoning may deserve. -- Andrew Jackson
[W]ar is a question, under our constitution, not of Executive, but of Legislative cognizance. It belongs to Congress to say whether the Nation shall of choice dismiss the olive branch and unfurl the banners of War. -- Alexander Hamilton
When I was doing 'Executive Orders,' I talked about Ebola to people who know about infectious diseases and their use as weapons of war, and guys told me that these weapons are more psychological than physical. -- Tom Clancy
Women administer the home. They set the rules, enforce them, mete out justice for violations. Thus, like Congress, they legislate; like the Executive, they administer; like the courts, they interpret the rules. It is an ideal experience for politics. -- Margaret Chase Smith
For far too long, the people of Northern Ireland have been denied an equal voice and equal representation in government. It is time for the Assembly and Executive to be up and running and the people's business to be addressed. -- James T. Walsh
Perhaps the most incapable Executive that ever filled the presidential chair...it would be difficult to imagine a man less fit to guide the state with honor and safety through the stormy times that marked the opening of the present century. -- Theodore Roosevelt
It is well to remember that the office of Chief Executive is in part a symbol of the nation and that leaders in a nation may differ in their own house but they have instant solidarity in the presence of foreign attack -- Herbert Hoover
I do think it's true that a huge amount of the oversight that the White House engages in with respect to the Executive Branch is out of fear that somebody's going to do something crazy and drive the president off a cliff. -- Donald Verrilli Jr.
I'm Chief Executive Officer at Art of the Olympians Museum in Fort Myers, Florida, which was founded by my Mexico City teammate Al Oerter and his wife Cathy in 2005. It shows that Olympians can have another life; we have got art from more than 100 Olympians. -- Bob Beamon
To have a healthy and thriving business, there must be healthy relationships with the C.E.O.S. in the organization and I'm not referring to the Chief Executive Offficers. I am talking about the Customers, the Employees, the Owner (or stockholders), and the Suppliers. -- James Hunter
One of the most enjoyable things I do at Government House and when I travel around Australia is to talk with children. I tell them about our parliamentary democracy - and I often do that as I'm walking into an Executive Council meeting next door! -- Quentin Bryce
A sister is the cure for swollen heads and ego trips. One may a star, a Chief Executive-famous and rich and beautiful. But one's sister has the family photo album. And a long, long memory. And a tendency to wink at one on Top Occasions. -- Pam Brown
Executive producers don't have to do anything. Nor do any kind of producers. They just sit around on deck chairs watching stuff, and if it gets cold, they leave. Actually I suppose as a producer you've got to be involved in helping out with solving problems. -- Russell Brand
[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch. -- Thomas Jefferson
In this distribution of powers the wisdom of our constitution is manifested. It is the province and duty of the Executive to preserve to the Nation the blessings of peace. The Legislature alone can interrupt those blessings, by placing the Nation in a state of War. -- Alexander Hamilton
The power given by the Constitution to the Executive to interpose his veto is a high conservative power; but in my opinion it should never be exercised except in cases of clear violation of the Constitution, or manifest haste and want of due consideration by Congress. -- Zachary Taylor
The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist. -- Winston Churchill
There are a lot of things that are said by people in the military, or civilian life, or in the Congress, or in the Executive Branch, that are their views. And that's the way we live. We're a free people. And that's the wonderful thing about our country. -- Donald Rumsfeld
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. -- Vera Brittain
Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive. -- John D. Rockefeller
The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip. -- Zig Ziglar
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive. -- B. C. Forbes
I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy. -- Joseph Heller
In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate. -- Lincoln Chafee
I started doing motivational tours. I've seen all kinds of people, from the CEOs to the lowest executive, opening up to their fears. We don't introspect as much as we should. -- Anupam Kher
I've got a pen and I've got a phone - and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward. -- Barack Obama
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom. -- J. K. Rowling
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves. -- Herbert Hoover
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mum and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently. 'Balance' is a really big word for me. -- Angela Ahrendts
Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand. -- Anita Borg
I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work. -- Hayao Miyazaki
Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged Bush to take a stronger stand against what Cheney sees as congressional intrusions into the executive branch. -- Helen Thomas
The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny. Any proposal to abuse executive power and infringe upon gun rights must be repelled with the stiffest legislative force possible. -- Steve Stockman
Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right. -- Steve Harvey
In many cases, Obama's exercise of authoritarian power is criminal. His executive branch is responsible for violations of the Arms Export Control Act in shipping weapons to Syria, the Espionage Act in Libya, and IRS law with regard to the targeting of conservative groups. -- Ben Shapiro
We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs. -- Alan Dershowitz
As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights. -- Jim Gaffigan
Steve Jobs was rare: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company's fortunes. Contrary to corporate mythology, most C.E.O.s could be easily replaced, if not by your average Joe, then by your average executive vice-president. But Jobs genuinely earned the label of superstar. -- James Surowiecki
I want 'Vogue' to be pacy, sharp, and sexy - I'm not interested in the super-rich or infinitely leisured. I want our readers to be energetic executive women, with money of their own and a wide range of interests. There is a new kind of woman out there. She's interested in business and money. -- Anna Wintour
The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly. -- Andrew Cohen
Decision making is the specific executive task. -- Peter Drucker
No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong. -- Robert Heller
Civilization has developed executive powers far beyond its understanding. -- Maude Meagher
Action orientation is the mark of the superior executive. -- Brian Tracy
European affairs are no longer reserved for the executive. -- Udo Di Fabio
Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government. -- Edward Bernays
You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life. -- Eric Thomas
A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. -- Joseph Story
I don't like what's going on with the executive compensation. -- Warren Buffett
The state is the executive committee of the ruling class. -- Karl Marx
I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere. -- Noam Chomsky
The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes. -- Michael Parenti
All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people. -- James Burgh
War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement -- James Madison
Either an executive can do his job or he can't. -- Robert Heller
When you are an executive, my friends, that is not leadership. -- Shirley Franklin
I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second. -- Steven Wright
[Hillary] Clinton has also pledged to add a third executive amnesty. -- Donald Trump
The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. -- P. Chidambaram
It's important to use executive orders. Every president since Washington has. -- Tim Kaine
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. -- Herbert Hoover
No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective. -- Peter Drucker
A good executive goes around with a worried look on his assistants. -- Vince Lombardi
I have a duty to protect the executive branch from legislative encroachment. -- George W. Bush
The chief ability of an executive should be his ability to recognize ability. -- Evan Esar
Donald Trump is gonna immediately start canceling some executive orders and repealing Obamacare. -- Rush Limbaugh
The governor is Virginia's chief executive and represents the commonwealth at all times. -- Bob McDonnell
An executive is one who makes an immediate decision and is sometimes right -- Elbert Hubbard
A successful executive is one that solves bigger problems than he/she creates. -- David Allen
... a meddler who cannot leave his subordinates alone is a hands on executive. -- John Leo
Behind every piece of bad content is an executive who asked for it. -- Michael Brenner
Donald Trump is gonna immediately start canceling some executive orders and repealing Obamacare. -- Rush Limbaugh
Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama. -- Ann Coulter
Not one Wall Street executive has been charged with crimes since the 2008 financial crash. -- Haskell Wexler
At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one. -- Malcolm Forbes
Any chief executive who hires a consultant to give them strategy should be fired. -- Duff McDonald
Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has. -- Jacob Lew
I have got five minutes, some whip-its, and the key to the executive bathroom. -- Monica Denise Brown
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American businesses are looking for are certainty and executive orders don't really get them that. -- Eric Bolling
It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws. -- Garet Garrett
We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor. -- John Engler
An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this. -- Hans Frank
The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law. -- George W. Bush
An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic. -- Peter Drucker
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. -- Daniel Webster
What do you do if you're an executive who resigns? You declare yourself a consultant. -- Mo Ibrahim
An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides. -- John Henry Patterson
Show me an executive that works long hard hours and I'll show you a bad executive. -- Ronald Reagan
The world increasingly allows girls to be whoever they wish to be-- homemaker, mother, secretary, executive. -- Warren Farrell

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