Executive Quotes

The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.

The governor is Virginia's chief executive and represents the commonwealth at all times.

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.

A president who believed that America's greatness is recoverable and expandable - a chief executive determined to lead us back to national restoration - would reject the crippling notions of national impotency that Obama has embraced.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.

An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.