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Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

The appointing power vested in the president imposes delicate and onerous duties. So far as it is possible to be informed, I shall make honesty, capacity, and fidelity indispensable prerequisites to the disposal of office, and the absence of either of these qualities shall be deemed sufficient cause for removal.

You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.