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The fact that presidents have done something does not necessarily make it right or constitutional. — Chris Edelson

A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward. — Theodore White

That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress and/or in the public. — Robert McNamara

If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have to make basic changes? — Robert Kennedy

We'll look to the fall and if there is a new president and a new Senate that's part of a Congress willing to change, that's the next step. — Scott Walker

There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president. — Donella Meadows

I believe we [americans] are strongest as a nation, when the president and Congress work together. — Barack Obama

President Bush has urged people to get back to normal and today Congress announced that they are accepting bribes again. — Jay Leno

A president just can't make much showing against congress. They lay awake nights, thinking up things to be against the president on. — Will Rogers

I think this sets a very bad precedent, the president unilaterally on his own starting war without any consent from Congress. — Rand Paul

A dictator decrees," she later wrote, "a president asks Congress for permission to organize. — Denise Kiernan

When you have a gutless Congress a lawless president can do pretty much what he chooses. — Lyn Nofziger

Now that we have the line-item veto there is no excuse for Congress to put pork in and no reason for the president not to line-item veto it out. — John McCain

The president of the United States, on Inauguration Day, takes an oath to faithfully execute the laws. Those are the laws that are passed by Congress. — Jim Sensenbrenner

Never be easy for any president to deal with any Congress. But republicans got to work together. We got to get things done. — Chris Christie

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S. — James K. Polk

Don't people know that they don't have to heckle the president of the United States? That's what Congress is for. — Bob Hope

I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic. — Alberto Fujimori

Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law. — Ted Cruz

The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president. — Ted Cruz

Write to your newspaper. Call your Member of Congress. Email President Obama. Speak out for a cleaner, more stable future for all of us. — Frances Beinecke

The Democrats' plan for 2006? Take the House and Senate and impeach the president. With our nation at war, is this the kind of Congress you want? — Ken Mehlman

What do we do with a president who can basically change what Congress passed by attaching a letter saying I don't agree with this part or that part? — Trey Gowdy

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

A territory cannot become a state or a nation unless Congress approves legislation and the president signs it. — Pedro Pierluisi

The Constitution grants only Congress - not the president - the power 'to borrow money on the credit of the United States.' — Laurence Tribe

I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress. — Donna Edwards

Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president. — Tom Rice

Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God. — Glenn Beck

We have gone into a war, an unelected president sending us into a war that the Congress frankly had no right, I believe, to authorize. — Carol Moseley Braun

But it would be a tragedy to get the right president, the right Congress, and the wrong Christ. — Russell D. Moore

I would say to the president: This is not about me. This is not about Republicans here in Congress. It's about fairness for the America people. — John Boehner

Every two years for Congress, four years for President, illegal immigration comes out as a political issue. — Joe Arpaio

We need a return to transparency and a system of checks and balances, to a president who respects Congress' role of oversight and accountability. — Hillary Clinton

If Congress were to censure, fine or otherwise try to punish a president, it would dramatically alter the balance of power between the branches.. — Mike DeWine

I could run for Congress. Why not? Good heavens, if Ronald Reagan can be president, I ought to make a great secretary of the treasury. — Sandra Dee

Clean air is a basic right. The responsibility to ensure that falls to Congress and the president. — Thomas Carper

President Obama thinks he can use emotion to bring pressure on Congress. But that's not how adults with power respond to things. — Maureen Dowd

Today was opening day for the new Congress in Washington. And Vice President Joe Biden swore in the new batch of White House fence jumpers. — David Letterman

Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes. — Theodore Roosevelt

They're saying President Obama doesn't have any friends. The problem is that he can't get Congress to approve one. — David Letterman

MILWAUKEE- President Barack Obama went to Milwaukee on Monday to talk up an improving economy and push Congress to boost the minimum wage. — Anonymous

President Obama signed a bill preventing members of Congress from profiting from insider trading. Didn't you think that was already illegal? — Jay Leno

If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't. — Nate Silver

In 2010, we have to focus on electing a new Congress and in 2012 we have to focus on electing a new president. — Andrew P. Harris