| "The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock." »Sam Ervin |
| "Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity." »Vera Brittaiin |
| "A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself." »Arthur W. Radford |
| "The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it." »Theodore Roosevelt |
| "I'm not going to let anybody come down at night like Nicodemus and whisper something in my ear that no one else can hear. That is not executive privilege it is poppycock." »Sam James Ervin, Jr. |
| "The single most important factor in determining the climate of an organization is the top executive." »Charles Galloway |
| "Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive." »Scott Adams |
| "The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself." »John Kenneth Galbraith |
| "I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned." »Gerald R. Ford |
| "I took a look around the office. ... I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that I would not be back there again. (On leaving the executive Office Building)" »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "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 Milhous Nixon |
| "An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides." »John H. Patterson |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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