The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them.
John Adair

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
Daniel Webster

The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.
Lyn Nofziger

The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.
Andrew Cohen

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
James Madison

The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company's management team.
Gerard Arpey

The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood; and secondly, that the Church organization is complete in each worshipping assembly, which is independent of every other.
Charles Hodge

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.
George W. Bush

The people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with authority either in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches.
John Witherspoon

The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
Mangosuthu Buthelezi

The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.
Sam Ervin

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
Edward Gibbon

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

The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis

The ultimate test of a finished account executive is his ability to write a sound marketing plan.
Morris Hite

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.
Fred Allen

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
B. C. Forbes

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

There is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.
Henry Middleton

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
Richard M. Nixon