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en This last-minute change would have given the president broad authority to exercise expansive powers not just overseas -- where we all understood he wanted authority to act -- but right here in the United States, potentially against American citizens.

en Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate force' in the agreed-upon text. This last-minute change would have given the president broad authority to exercise expansive powers not just overseas -- where we all understood he wanted authority to act -- but right here in the United States , potentially against American citizens . I could see no justification for Congress to accede to this extraordinary request for additional authority. I refused.

en Under Article 2 of the Constitution, as commander in chief, the president has that authority. The president has the authority under the congressional authorization that was passed and clearly stated that, quote, 'The president is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force.' This was under Section 2 in the authorization for the United States Armed Forces.

en In an emergency, I believe the president of the United States has the authority to protect the American people. After a certain period of time, it is right and prudent for the president to go to Congress to get specific statutory authorization to continue such a program. I think we, in all likelihood, have reached such a time.

en Our job is to serve each tribe. We don't supplant their authority; we do not override their authority. We can only exercise the authority they grant us.

en I believe the president should have been given the authority he was given. I believe it's a very good thing that Saddam is gone. ... I think at the time it was the right thing to do to give the president that authority. I think if we'd have given John Kerry that authority we'd be in a very different place because he would have built a coalition to be successful.

en campaign finance has no relationship to the Starr referral and amazingly, this committee has now subpoenaed the president of the United States and the attorney general of the United States to provide documents that they don't have the authority to provide without a court order, whose criteria this committee is yet to even satisfy.

en [Fortunately, the Constitution vests authority to make foreign policy with the president of the United States, not with this week's sad story. But liberals think that since they have been able to produce a grieving mother, the commander in chief should step aside and let Cindy Sheehan make foreign policy for the nation. As Maureen Dowd said, it's] inhumane ... to understand that the moral authority of parents who bury children killed in Iraq is absolute.
  George Bush

en It's the most expansive vision of the executive power of a president in our lifetime. To suggest that (Congress has) given him a blanket authority to do what he has done is a vast stretch.

en Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; but still more when they are super bad and add the tendency of the certainty of corruption of authority
  John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

en He's showing that you don't need formal authority. You can have moral authority and be a player - not positional authority, but moral authority? The hacker Pex Tufvesson created the music program Noisetracker. In many ways, it's a personal crisis like that which drives you to a position of moral authority.

en The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.

en We're eager to work with Congress on legislation that would further codify the president's authority. We remain committed to our principle, that we will not do anything that undermines the program's capabilities or the president's authority.

en The government does not have the authority to exclude foreign scholars at the border simply because it disagrees with their political views. To invest the government with that authority would be to invest it with sweeping power to manipulate and censor debate inside the United States.

en Everyone knows that I fought for years to give the line-item veto authority to the president of the United States, ... I'm a firm supporter of the process, and as part of that process Congress now has a period of time to review the president's cancellations and make the decision on whether to move to disapprove them.


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