Executive Orders Quotes

• Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool.

  Paul Begala

  Law, Land, President

  The New York Times, July 5, 1998.

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• I've got a pen, and I've got a phone, and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive action. I've got a pen to talk executive actions where congress won't. Where congress isn't acting, I'll act on my own. I have got a pen and I got a phone. And that is all I need.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Order, Phones

  "Sean Spicer on goals as the new White House press secretary; Scaramucci on questions over Trump's presidency and business". "The Kelly File", www.foxnews.com. December 22, 2016.

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• There is one way, only one way to solve it, and that is through legislation. It cannot be through an unconstitutional executive order that violates the Constitution. That is, it doesn't matter here what you think about immigration: here you cannot violate the nation's Constitution, period.

  Marco Rubio

  Thinking, Order, Immigration

  Source: www.univision.com

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• It's important to use executive orders. Every president since Washington has.

  Tim Kaine

  Order, Important, President

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I will cancel every illegal Obamacare executive order. I will cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities. Out.

  Donald Trump

  Order, Cities, Obamacare

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I don't think we've ever had a president who has more disdain for Washington than Barack Obama does, and he does things with executive orders or rules that you don't even see.

  Rick Perry

  Thinking, Order, President

  Source: stream.org

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• The president is supposed to execute faithfully the laws that the legislature has written. So, the executive orders that Barack Obama president is writing are without precedent. Without precedent so with he's rewriting law. It's totally illegal.

  Rafael Cruz

  Writing, Order, Law

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• On August 28, 1933, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6260, outlawing the constitutional right of U.S. citizens to own gold.

  Michael Maloney

  August, Order, Gold

  Michael Maloney (2015). “Guide To Investing in Gold & Silver: Protect Your Financial Future”, p.38, RDA Press, LLC

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• February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II.

  Xavier Becerra

  War, Order, Years

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• Within two weeks of moving into the White House, Obama signed a series of executive orders championed by union bosses. The new rules authorized sweeping powers for the labor secretary that essentially blackball nonunion contractors targeted by labor organizers and blacklist nonunion employees in the private sector from working on taxpayer-funded projects.

  Michelle Malkin

  Moving, Order, Two

  "Big Labor's Investment in Obama Pays Off" by Michelle Malkin, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 13, 2009.

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• I ended Affirmative Action by executive order and replaced it with a leadership model that created more opportunities for African-American and Hispanic students.

  Jeb Bush

  Opportunity, Order, African American

  "RNC chair blasts CNBC's 'crap sandwich' debate; Bush, Kasich call out GOP rivals". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2015.

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• The thing about an executive order - there has never been an executive order that a Congress couldn't say, "You know, we don't like that so we're going to do something else," if there is a majority in Congress to do something else.

  Tim Kaine

  Order, Majority, Congress

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We're [with Donald Trump] working from Day 1, which will be [Monday, January 23 2017], the first full business day of the administration, to begin to roll back the unconstitutional executive orders and an avalanche of regulations that have been stifling growth and jobs in Indiana and across the economy.

  Mike Pence

  Monday, Jobs, Order

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• I was very, very concerned about President Obama and how much executive order and how much executive power he tried to exert. But I think I want to be, and I think congress will be, a check on any executive, Republican or Democrat, that tries to grasp too much power. And really, a lot of the fault is not only presidents trying to take too much power, it's Congress giving up too much power.

  Rand Paul

  Giving Up, Thinking, Order

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• My first [executive orders as a President] would be to get rid of a lot of the executive orders, especially on the border where President [Barack] Obama wants people to pour through like we're Swiss cheese.

  Donald Trump

  Order, People, President

  Source: townhall.com

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• This bill attempts to make sure that President Clinton is not allowed to do by Executive Order what Congress has declined to enact in the past two congressional sessions namely, to treat homosexuals as a special class protected under various titles of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

  Jesse Helms

  Past, Rights, Order

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• American businesses are looking for are certainty and executive orders don't really get them that.

  Eric Bolling

  Order, Certainty, American Business

  "Critics pan Obama's threat to bypass Congress". "The Five" with Kimberly Guilfoyle, Bob Beckel, Eric Bolling, Dana Perino, and Greg Gutfeld, www.foxnews.com. January 16, 2014.

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• The president began this program by executive order. He should immediately end it by executive order. For over a year now, he has said the program is illegal, and yet he does nothing.

  Rand Paul

  Order, Years, Nsa

  "Rand Paul's NSA Filibuster: His Notable Quotes" by Andrew Desiderio, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 21, 2015.

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• We waited for Congress to act. They couldn't act on the issue. So I just went ahead and signed an executive order which will unleash - [applause] - which says the federal agencies will not discriminate against faith-based programs. They ought to welcome the armies of compassion as opposed to turning them away.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Army, Compassion

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• The first thing [Donald Trump] is going to do is roll back the fiat executive orders that were unconstitutional.

  Mary Matalin

  Order, Firsts, Trump

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Donald Trump is gonna immediately start canceling some executive orders and repealing Obamacare.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Order, Obamacare, Trump

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• My argument is focused on the fact that a relatively small percentage of the world's Muslim countries are impacted by this order. Stated differently, this executive order is a singularly ineffective - in legal parlance, it would be called under-inclusive - form of a Muslim ban.

  David B. Rivkin

  Country, Order, Facts

  "Is President Trump’s executive order constitutional?". Interview with James Downie, www.washingtonpost.com. February 6, 2017.

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• Almost always, executive orders are within an authority and always within the purview of Congress to change if they want to legislatively change it.

  Tim Kaine

  Order, Want, Authority

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Now that Mr. Trump is the President-elect: If he chooses, he can, by executive order, repeal most of what President Barack Obama brought into existence, including the thawing of the relationship between the United States and the people of Cuba. And because there is a Republican Senate, a Republican House of Representatives, a Republican president, it is more than likely that his legislative program will be accepted; his nominations to the Supreme Court may very well be accepted.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Order, People, House

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• I just released an op-ed in the "Washington Post" that talks about providing an I.D. so that everyone can have an I.D., primarily, the social security card, a picture would be put on that card, and a president can certainly by executive order make this happen so that people will not need a special I.D. They`ll have one to vote.

  Al Sharpton

  Order, People, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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