Political Quotes

“Mr. President, reserving the right to object, we live in a great country. It is a country that has thrived precisely because we have sought, since the moment of our founding, to live under the rule of law; that when we make a law, we do our best to follow it. It doesn't always work that smoothly. I know the process of making law and enforcing law and interpreting the law can be messy. People have strong opinions about what the law ought to be, how it ought to be enforced, what the law means. But, you know, we have been at our best when we accept the fundamental premise that although the task may be difficult and although people might reach different conclusions regarding what the law should be, how the law ought to be enforced, and how it ought to be interpreted, that there is a right answer. We might not all agree on what the right answer is, but if we agree that there is a right answer and it is our obligation to find it and then defend it once we have found it, we are going to be better off. One of the things that differentiated our form of government from that of our mother country is the twin set of structural protections in the Constitution that separate and divide power.…”