What I said was exactly the same conclusion the White House reached, which was that the statement was inappropriate. That's why they backed away from it, as well.

I think it was not directly applicable and appropriate for the setting. I think it should have been taken down. And apparently, the White House felt the same way.

But when the executive branch contravenes, contradicts that policy as established in Federal statute, that we have the wrong body in effect legislating, the executive branch rather than the legislative branch.

The idea of rooting out corruption, fraud, abuse is something I think that we are all dedicated to.

These things happen not because we have had bad men as Presidents. We haven't, we have had good men, that includes our current President.

We cannot ignore abuses of power because if we ignore them then they become part of the established practice and tradition within the constitutional system and that is dangerous.

Political philosophers for centuries have believed that centralization of power brings about an unacceptable risk of tyranny.

I'm outraged by the attacks on the American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American Consulate worker in Benghazi. It's disgraceful that the Obama administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on…

I think it's a terrible course for America to stand in apology for our values, that, instead, when our grounds are being attacked and being breached, that the first response of the United States must be outrage at the breach of the…

I think it's a -- a terrible course to -- for America to stand in apology for our values. That instead when our grounds are being attacked and being breached that the first response of the United States must be outrage at the breach of the…

Congress is free, the Federal Government is free to grant religious exceptions and doing so does not amount to an establishment clause violation.

It is thus all the more necessary and important that Congress continue to exercise its constitutional role and to check this President's abuse of power wherever it sees that occurring.

President Obama again abused Executive power when earlier this year he announced that he would stop enforcing key provisions of the Immigration Nationality Act.

I was personally somewhat concerned when we got involved in military action in Libya without any prior consultation of Congress.

the Constitution in its opening line, right after the Preamble in Article I, Section 1 says that all legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in the Congress which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives.

Here with this Executive order we have what is in effect a piece of legislation. It didn't go through Congress.

When the Administration starts to overstep its bounds and uses administrative agencies in a way that restricts on fundamental First Amendment freedoms you are seeing a serious problem and you are seeing a serious overreach of Executive…

the Constitution itself gives each House of Congress the prerogative of determining its own schedule