Political Quotes

“Mr. President, now we know this, and this is a conversation I have quite often with individuals to talk about what is happening in my State when they ask me: What is going on in Washington? What is happening with the Executive orders and the change of the administration? And one thing that we talk about, and I think it is important because sometimes it gets lost in this conversation is that when our system of government was created, about 250 years ago, it was created because the American people at the time decided they wanted a democracy. They didn't want a king. You know, the United States of America is born out of a revolution against a monarch, a king who sat on a throne and had really no checks on his power. And our Founding Fathers built this Nation on a foundation of democratic principles, supporting the idea that government is for the people. That is what the American people wanted. And as part of that creation, they established three coequal branches of government. We all know the executive, the legislative, the judicial. And along with that, they created a system of checks and balances to ensure that no branch had too much control over the other. Now, as we all know--we work here in Congress--that legislative branch is important. It is the first branch of government, coequal to all the others.…”