executive quotes

Consider Ireland. Thus you have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Churchand in addition, the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

- Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
  Speech, House of Commons,16 Feb.

The principles of a free constitution are irrevocably lost when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

- Edward Gibbon
^88  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch.3.

A half-creature of the Senate and a half-creature of the executive.

- Michael Joseph Mansfield
  On the role of the Vice-President as the Senate's presiding officer. In Time,14 Nov.