Quotes about Legislative

Priebus had an agenda of his own: heeding Senate leader Mitch McConnell's prescription that "this president will sign whatever is put in front of him," while also taking advantage of the White House's lack of political and legislative experience and outsourcing as much policy as possible to Capitol Hill.

One prominent spiritual leader insists, "The only way to have a genuine spiritual revival is to have legislative reform." Could he have that backwards?

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.

It is a rare piece of legislation indeed where there is so much agreement about the goals.

Some are displeased with it, not on account of any errors or defects in it, but because, as the treaties, when made, are to have the force of laws, they should be made only by men invested with legislative authority. These gentlemen seem not to consider that the judgments of our courts, and the commissions constitutionally given by our governor, are as valid and as binding on all persons whom they concern, as the laws passed by our legislature

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.