No penance would ever expiate the sin against free government of holding that a President can escape control of executive powers by law through assuming his military role. Robert H. Jackson
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. Montesquieu
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government. Richard Nixon
I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant. Edward Snowden
I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well. George W. Bush