#executive

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law. ↗

— George W. Bush

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I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive. ↗

— Jane Byrne

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I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its own feet. ↗

— Jim Gilmore

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There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

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Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

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I hadn't made a big-budget film, and in Hollywood there's a sort of man and boys situation. You're a man, you make $80 million movies! As if it's harder to make an $80 million movie. Well, I guess businesswise it is because you have more executives to argue with. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

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A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. ↗

— Joseph Story

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I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source. ↗

— Andrew Johnson

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I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

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Sometimes in this country, we don't focus a lot on people's experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will. ↗

— Artur Davis

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