Famous Quotes & Sayings

The statute tries to cram a fourth branch of government into our three-branch system.

The way it's written now, the legislative branch would totally give up any oversight of those records. That's the danger.

Harriet Miers

The wisdom of those who drafted our Constitution and conceived our nation as functioning with three strong and independent branches has proven truly remarkable.

We just need to let the judicial branch do their business and the truth will hopefully decide what we do next. But I support Mike 150 percent and will do everything I can to support him and encourage him and get him by this.

Sadie Jones

We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.

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Pete Carroll

Each nanosecond of history branches off into an infinite amount of parallel universes.

Robert Fortune

The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired.

Sam Brownback

I want to note that, historically, the make-up of the court has changed just as elected branches have change.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and its only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.

Herman Melville

Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.

Generally speaking, 95 percent of all branch applications get approved. It's really not a controversial process.

George W. Bush

I have a duty to protect the executive branch from legislative encroachment.

Henry Mayhew

But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system

Henning Mankell

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

Sticks are something we all have in common. Everybody knows sticks - the twigs and branches picked up on grandfather's farm; the branches woven in grandmother's basket. Somewhere threaded in all the public mass is a common thread, and that thread is the human spirit.

It's a very strange strategy when somebody offers you an olive branch and you use it to stick him in the eyeball,

It's either an olive branch to acknowledge that they need to do more or others might view it as throwing down the gauntlet for government and business to work together.

Randy Barnett

It seems perfectly reasonable for the president to want members of the executive branch to be loyal to him and to follow his directions rather than those of the bureaucracies they lead. They will leave their positions when the president leaves. Making a lifetime appointment of a friend to the Supreme Court is a whole different matter.

It's a self-perpetuating system involving interests, members of Congress, people in the executive branch and patronage positions and so on.

Matt LeBlanc

It's like you're caught naked hanging from a tree branch with the wind blowing.

That sort of gave me the feel that he would be able to play at that level. At what branch of that level, I wasn't totally sure.

That ruling doesn't simply hit innocent men now in their fifth year of imprisonment. It goes to whether we have a judicial branch at all. This is that rare question so vital that the Supreme Court should immediately intervene to answer.

Everybody is fine in my home, so I'm thankful for that, ... A couple tree branches and stuff, which is normal for hurricanes. They had a power outage, but nothing serious.

Tucker Carlson

The Bush campaign is claiming that they've been working hard and they've had everything in place and they're ready to go and they're going to be able to pull it off. But it's really complicated. Thousands of people are going to get new jobs. The whole city and the whole executive branch are changing.

The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, / The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.

Even though I am the branch manager, if they need me to help teller, I will go up there and help. Anything to do with servicing the customer, I'll be there.

Arthur Machen

Every branch of human knowledge if traced up to its source and final principles vanishes into mystery

It's the human-interest factor. You root for her at Indy and you want her to do well here. It's good for her to branch out and prove herself in front of a wider audience.

Christopher Hitchens

The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for "peace through strength" has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog.

Frank Zappa

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

William Daley

Governor Bush said that under our system of government the legislative branch passes the laws, the executive branch administers the law. Unfortunately, he left out one important branch of our government, the judicial branch, which has the responsibility of interpreting our laws and reconciling conflicts between statutes.

Joe Henderson

I felt that I needed to branch out, ... I enjoyed racing in Nashville but there's a limit as to how far you can go there.