“I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured all four of these leaders that I know the difference, and that difference is they pass the laws and I execute them.”
George W. Bush
“She's really quite an expert on dealing with the realities of the struggles between the executive branch, the legislative branch ? and I'm going to say ? the judicial branch,”
Andy Card
“His belief in the Founding Fathers' vision of judicial restraint, federalism, and deference to the legislative and executive branches ... has enjoyed a tremendous renaissance in his time. He is truly the godfather of the constitutionalist movement in American law.”
C. Boyden Gray
“You bet there'll be congressional hearings. I think both branches, the legislative branch and the judiciary branch, should look into this in depth, because this is a frightening event, that American citizens can expect that the executive branch on their own can decide whether to raid a home.”
Tom DeLay
“For public universities, it is inevitable that the legislative and executive branch appropriations are going to have to be reassessed every year. There's never an ironclad guarantee.”
Greg Nichols
“Give the course that these hearings have followed ... and given the special relationship between the legislative and executive branches embodied in our Constitution and our nation's history, we do not believe that it would be appropriate for the president to appear before the committee,”
Charles Ruff
“Frankly some of the branches did not execute at the branch level. That is disappointing but we are working very hard to get that message out today.”
Greg Cook