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So what I said, while I would not prefer executive action, I always prefer legislative action, that responsibility lies directly in the chair of Speaker Boehner who has refused to defy the tea party and do what's right for this country. – Senate Democrats	Found on CNN 9 years ago
As I continued to talk, I could see the executive getting more and more perplexed. – The National Journal	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The scale of our ambition in the American region meant we needed a member of our executive management team with the drive, determination and motivation to make it happen. – Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelsson	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
They were seizing for salaries and policing for profit, police departments saw (asset forfeiture) as a new stream of revenue and my predecessors have abdicated their responsibility because the executive branch raised and spent money without legislative oversight. – Laura Woods	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
They allowed partisan and personal issues to carry the country over the cliff where the executive is ruling by decree and there is the greatest likelihood of political paralysis and street violence. These issues should have been resolved two years ago and they have been allowed to fester and now we are about to see the explosion. – Mark Schneider	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Each of these five individuals was unanimously approved for transfer more nearly five years ago by six departments and agencies through the 2009 executive order task force. – Ian Moss	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We take our obligation to assess the security risk of detainees seriously prior to transfers. As a result, more than 90 percent of detainees transferred during the Obama administration live quietly around the world, each of these five individuals was unanimously approved for transfer more nearly five years ago by six departments and agencies through the 2009 executive order task force. – Paul Lewis	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I worry about future administrations, now there's bad precedent, and not every executive branch in the future will exercise their discretion the way this one did. It didn't have to go this way. – Joel Kurtzberg	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The significance of this new Executive Order may come from the broad power it gives the president to target anyone who is a part of the North Korean government, or is assisting them in any way … that is if the administration chooses to use it to its full advantage, we need to step up and target those financial institutions in Asia and beyond that are supporting the brutal and dangerous North Korean regime. – Ed Royce	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Our goal here is to fund the Department of Homeland Security. And our second goal is to stop the president's executive overreach. – John Boehner	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
He's an executive branch kind of guy, you can expect him to run for governor in 2018 without any question. – Larry Gerston	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
For some reason still unbeknownst to me they didn't think that was a good idea and they did fire me, in the last few weeks, it blindsided me; I had no idea that an executive committee could fire a founder and the titular leader of the company. – Bill Gross	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Constitutional development must be built on the basis of the Basic Law and the decision of (China's) NPCSC (National People's Congress Standing Committee), otherwise it would only be futile and impractical and the aim of universal suffrage for the CE (Chief Executive) election would only become a 'castle in the air'. – Carrie Lam	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Due to the latest U.S. sanctions imposed against Crimea by Executive Order 13685 of December 19, 2014, Visa is now prohibited from offering Visa-branded products and services to Crimea. This means that we can no longer support card issuing and merchant/ATM acquiring services in Crimea. – Visa Inc	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
When you look at this year's management reshuffle at Korean firms, you have to focus on executive vice presidents, not CEOs, because they are the ones who will support scions when they take over. – Chung Mong-koo	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Judge Howell's decision today confirms what the Department of Justice and scholars throughout the country have been saying all along: the president's executive actions on immigration are lawful, the Supreme Court and Congress have made clear that federal officials can set priorities in enforcing our immigration laws, and the actions announced by the president are consistent with those taken by administrations of both parties for the last half century. – White House	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It's a one-man board until Leo Quinn gets some new colleagues, he is arriving at a business where the chairman and finance director are leaving, two non-executive directors have gone and the suspicion has to be that the other non-executive directors want to go. – Stephen Rawlinson	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I think it is critical that the Senate have the opportunity to have a clear up or down vote on finding President Obama's illegal executive amnesty, i am using every tool available to help bring about that vote. – Ted Cruz	Found on CNN 9 years ago
A deal is possible. The real work needs to be done to make sure the budget of the Northern Executive is sustainable and works, so intensive work needs to be done by the parties on that issue, i'm confident in the period ahead that more progress can be made. – British Prime Minister David Cameron	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I think generations will forget, and the institution strives to serve the executive. And there will be mistakes again. – Glenn Carle	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We have been discussing also the (Pyeongchang) budget of course, we have a new chairman of the organizing committee and chairman Cho has the full confidence of the IOC Executive Board. – Thomas Bach	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The question is did top-down executive function improve, is the brain changing in a meaningful way, or are these changes just specific to the task? – Zachary Shipstead	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The question is why would a company give an executive a special financial reward as they're about to take a government position. Some people say these policies encourage public service, but we worry that they give financial insiders even more sway over the government. In some ways, these companies are ensuring that they'll have friends in high places. – Michael Smallberg of the Project	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Texas is uniquely qualified to challenge the president's executive order. – Greg Abbott	Found on CNN 9 years ago

So what I said, while I would not prefer executive action, I always prefer legislative action, that responsibility lies directly in the chair of Speaker Boehner who has refused to defy the tea party and do what's right for this country.

– Senate Democrats

Found on CNN
9 years ago

As I continued to talk, I could see the executive getting more and more perplexed.

– The National Journal

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The scale of our ambition in the American region meant we needed a member of our executive management team with the drive, determination and motivation to make it happen.

– Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelsson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

They were seizing for salaries and policing for profit, police departments saw (asset forfeiture) as a new stream of revenue and my predecessors have abdicated their responsibility because the executive branch raised and spent money without legislative oversight.

– Laura Woods

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

They allowed partisan and personal issues to carry the country over the cliff where the executive is ruling by decree and there is the greatest likelihood of political paralysis and street violence. These issues should have been resolved two years ago and they have been allowed to fester and now we are about to see the explosion.

– Mark Schneider

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Each of these five individuals was unanimously approved for transfer more nearly five years ago by six departments and agencies through the 2009 executive order task force.

– Ian Moss

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We take our obligation to assess the security risk of detainees seriously prior to transfers. As a result, more than 90 percent of detainees transferred during the Obama administration live quietly around the world, each of these five individuals was unanimously approved for transfer more nearly five years ago by six departments and agencies through the 2009 executive order task force.

– Paul Lewis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I worry about future administrations, now there's bad precedent, and not every executive branch in the future will exercise their discretion the way this one did. It didn't have to go this way.

– Joel Kurtzberg

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The significance of this new Executive Order may come from the broad power it gives the president to target anyone who is a part of the North Korean government, or is assisting them in any way … that is if the administration chooses to use it to its full advantage, we need to step up and target those financial institutions in Asia and beyond that are supporting the brutal and dangerous North Korean regime.

– Ed Royce

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Our goal here is to fund the Department of Homeland Security. And our second goal is to stop the president's executive overreach.

– John Boehner

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

He's an executive branch kind of guy, you can expect him to run for governor in 2018 without any question.

– Larry Gerston

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

For some reason still unbeknownst to me they didn't think that was a good idea and they did fire me, in the last few weeks, it blindsided me; I had no idea that an executive committee could fire a founder and the titular leader of the company.

– Bill Gross

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Constitutional development must be built on the basis of the Basic Law and the decision of (China's) NPCSC (National People's Congress Standing Committee), otherwise it would only be futile and impractical and the aim of universal suffrage for the CE (Chief Executive) election would only become a 'castle in the air'.

– Carrie Lam

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Due to the latest U.S. sanctions imposed against Crimea by Executive Order 13685 of December 19, 2014, Visa is now prohibited from offering Visa-branded products and services to Crimea. This means that we can no longer support card issuing and merchant/ATM acquiring services in Crimea.

– Visa Inc

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

When you look at this year's management reshuffle at Korean firms, you have to focus on executive vice presidents, not CEOs, because they are the ones who will support scions when they take over.

– Chung Mong-koo

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Judge Howell's decision today confirms what the Department of Justice and scholars throughout the country have been saying all along: the president's executive actions on immigration are lawful, the Supreme Court and Congress have made clear that federal officials can set priorities in enforcing our immigration laws, and the actions announced by the president are consistent with those taken by administrations of both parties for the last half century.

– White House

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's a one-man board until Leo Quinn gets some new colleagues, he is arriving at a business where the chairman and finance director are leaving, two non-executive directors have gone and the suspicion has to be that the other non-executive directors want to go.

– Stephen Rawlinson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I think it is critical that the Senate have the opportunity to have a clear up or down vote on finding President Obama's illegal executive amnesty, i am using every tool available to help bring about that vote.

– Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
9 years ago

A deal is possible. The real work needs to be done to make sure the budget of the Northern Executive is sustainable and works, so intensive work needs to be done by the parties on that issue, i'm confident in the period ahead that more progress can be made.

– British Prime Minister David Cameron

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I think generations will forget, and the institution strives to serve the executive. And there will be mistakes again.

– Glenn Carle

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We have been discussing also the (Pyeongchang) budget of course, we have a new chairman of the organizing committee and chairman Cho has the full confidence of the IOC Executive Board.

– Thomas Bach

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The question is did top-down executive function improve, is the brain changing in a meaningful way, or are these changes just specific to the task?

– Zachary Shipstead

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The question is why would a company give an executive a special financial reward as they're about to take a government position. Some people say these policies encourage public service, but we worry that they give financial insiders even more sway over the government. In some ways, these companies are ensuring that they'll have friends in high places.

– Michael Smallberg of the Project

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Texas is uniquely qualified to challenge the president's executive order.

– Greg Abbott

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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