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During the Koizumi administration, I served as the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary as well as the Chief Cabinet Secretary.

I think the Founding Fathers probably knew what they were doing in setting up the government to have a healthy tension between the executive branch and the legislative branch.

We only have one president and one secretary of state, but our founding fathers very clearly insisted that Congress play a significant role in foreign policy.

Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.

Nominally, there is one executive for every eight federal employees, a ratio that would bankrupt many private industries.

Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty to advise and consent to the appointment of all Cabinet officials. They should take that duty seriously.

In each colony in 1750 were to be found two sets of governing organizations, - the local and the general.

In the Congress, for every small thing, you have to consult the general secretaries.

No one, however long they have held the post, lightly gives up the great office of Chancellor of the Exchequer. Certainly I did not.