Monday, February 20, 2023

Quote of the Day: 20 February 2023 #QotD

“[T]he perceived responsibilities and powers of the president of the United States have metastasized dangerously since their original conception at the American founding. The president was meant merely to preside over the execution of the laws of the United States, not to be an all-powerful superhero unconstrained in an endless quest to right all wrongs, foreign and domestic.” -Brian Doherty & Gene Healy
“[T]he perceived responsibilities and powers of the president of the United States have metastasized dangerously since their original conception at the American founding. The president was meant merely to preside over the execution of the laws of the United States, not to be an all-powerful superhero unconstrained in an endless quest to right all wrongs, foreign and domestic.” -Brian Doherty & Gene Healy
[We, the American people have allowed our representatives to cede too much power to the executive, and we have undertaken far too much veneration of the office of the presidency that really ought to be more of a glorified DMV manager.

Oh, and Happy Presidents' Day.]

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