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Serving in the executive branch is very different than sounding off from an academic perch.

Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition.

The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.

Serving as President of the United States is a privilege that is afforded to few in our country.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

When power is exercised exclusively at the centre, the result is rigidity of rules and alienation of the people subject to those rules.

But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.

Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings.