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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
American businesses are looking for are certainty and executive orders don't really get them that. -- Eric Bolling
On August 28, 1933, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6260, outlawing the constitutional right of U.S. citizens to own gold. -- Michael Maloney
When I'm president, we'll have executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day -- Dick Gephardt
I ended Affirmative Action by executive order and replaced it with a leadership model that created more opportunities for African-American and Hispanic students. -- Jeb Bush
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 president began this program by executive order. He should immediately end it by executive order. For over a year now, he has said the program is illegal, and yet he does nothing. -- Rand Paul
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
A petition to have Justin Bieber deported got over 100,000 signatures, which means the White House now has to legally rule on it. So finally a chance for Obama to issue an executive order that both Republicans and Democrats can agree on. -- Jay Leno
After a migratory crisis on the border with minors coming over that you're seeing start up again now, after all these executive orders the President has issued. More than ever we need to prove to people that illegal immigration is under control. -- Marco Rubio
The administration is out lying through its teeth about all these people signing up and how great Obamacare is now. Meanwhile, Obama continues to break the law each and every day with executive actions - not even executive orders, executive actions - and proclamations. -- Rush Limbaugh
We can't really have a serious debate about reform on immigration if we don't have operational control of the border. ... With the executive order out there, with the urgency of the threat, I think it's very likely that we'll get something passed, later this year. -- Michael McCaul
There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision. -- Barbara Jordan
This bill attempts to make sure that President Clinton is not allowed to do by Executive Order what Congress has declined to enact in the past two congressional sessions namely, to treat homosexuals as a special class protected under various titles of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. -- Jesse Helms
Within two weeks of moving into the White House, Obama signed a series of executive orders championed by union bosses. The new rules authorized sweeping powers for the labor secretary that essentially blackball nonunion contractors targeted by labor organizers and blacklist nonunion employees in the private sector from working on taxpayer-funded projects. -- Michelle Malkin
We waited for Congress to act. They couldn't act on the issue. So I just went ahead and signed an executive order which will unleash - [applause] - which says the federal agencies will not discriminate against faith-based programs. They ought to welcome the armies of compassion as opposed to turning them away. -- George W. Bush
All children should be welcomed into the world and protected by the law. As President, I would immediately repeal President Clinton's five executive orders that promote abortion. I support a human life bill that defines unborn children as persons under the 14th Amendment. I will vigorously defend the pro-life plank in the Republican platform. -- Gary Bauer
I've got a pen, and I've got a phone, and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive action.Where I can act on my own without Congress, I'm going to do so. I've got a pen to take executive actions where Congress won't, and I've got a telephone to rally folks around the country on this mission. -- Barack Obama
It's important to use executive orders. Every president since Washington has. -- Tim Kaine
Donald Trump is gonna immediately start canceling some executive orders and repealing Obamacare. -- Rush Limbaugh
Donald Trump is gonna immediately start canceling some executive orders and repealing Obamacare. -- Rush Limbaugh
Donald Trump also will repeal all these executive amnesty orders that President Obama has put into place. -- Kellyanne Conway
The first thing [Donald Trump] is going to do is roll back the fiat executive orders that were unconstitutional. -- Mary Matalin
Almost always, executive orders are within an authority and always within the purview of Congress to change if they want to legislatively change it. -- Tim Kaine
To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust. -- Edmund Burke
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
I don't think we've ever had a president who has more disdain for Washington than Barack Obama does, and he does things with executive orders or rules that you don't even see. -- Rick Perry
If the president uses executive orders to legislate new laws, that would be an example of him subverting legislative power from Congress, and might be considered a gross perversion of the Constitution. -- Gary Hansen

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