Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Gravel

Our three branches of government have become like an unstable chair, a three-legged chair. The founders could not have envisioned how much money and special interests would corrupt the political process. Giving us Americans legislative power will put forth the fourth leg of our stool and make it stable.

Such cooperation also exists between the judicial branches of the two countries, which has contributed to the growth of bilateral ties,

William Williams

Some leaves hang late, some fallbefore the first frost--so goesthe tale of winter branches and old bones.

William Williams

Some leaves hang late, some fall before the first frost--so goes the tale of winter branches and old bones.

It is extremely important that a commission independent of the executive and legislative branches analyzes the Katrina disaster and the events leading up to it.

Therefore, other branches of the same case were separated into individual criminal proceedings.

Christopher Dodd

tie up three branches of government for the next four months.

Chuck Schumer

You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President.

Ludwig von Mises

It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other branch.

Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life... You see fractals in plants, in flowers. Within the human lung are branches within branches.

Lawton Chiles

We have the power to make the other branches of government really angry,

Randy Bachman

You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!

We're cutting weeds, getting branches out and carrying away debris. It'll look nice when we finish.

Mark Hudson

Wind damages, such as loss of plastic greenhouse coverings, broken branches of orchards, and fallen nursery stocks were observed.

James Madison

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

John Engler

We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.

All of the branches will end up getting a makeover in their general circulation area.

Edsger Dijkstra

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

Antonin Scalia

a serious inability of our political branches to conduct international affairs.

Tom Kelly

Every time there is a robbery at one of our branches we try to figure out what happened and why the numbers go up ... most of us are left scratching our heads.

Reaching skyward; no longer leaning,we grow well and strong,our friendship reinforced, in the knowledge thatwhether the branches intertwine or grow apart,we will always be able to find comfort,knowing fate has lent us strength in each other.

Courts have often been taken as branches of the government and judges viewed as civil servants who have to follow orders from superiors.

Cutting off lower branches on shrubs can open up a previously unused piece of real estate.

Trevor Wright

Customers will therefore be able to purchase $100, $200, $500 and $1000 denominations of airtime at six (6) JN Money Transfer branches in the UK. This makes it easier for Jamaicans vacationing in the UK and for those residing there, to top-up their credit while doing other transactions like sending remittances.

This could be how the first flight began?insects just jumped off branches and started gliding.

Harry Reid

This is a power play.... When you have all three branches of government controlled by the Republicans, you wind up with stuff like this, which is simply a misuse of power.

This means, even when our branches are not open, students can still get homework help.

Herman Melville

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

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.

George W. Bush

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

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.

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.