Congressional intervention and the availability of intervention demonstrably offset agency indifference; are a guard against arbitrary, improper, and illegal bureaucratic decisions; and provide the power of public pressure to require the nonelected official to be responsive.

Terry Sanford

Categorized in : Decisions Against Pressure Power

Certainly I would not risk a single life to restore the Kuwaiti royal family to the throne.

Terry Sanford

royal single family life

I take very seriously our responsibility to keep a strong economy.

Terry Sanford

seriously take strong responsibility

We are tired of having our integrity impugned. We are tired of having our sincerity questioned. We are tired of having our intelligence insulted.

Terry Sanford

insulted intelligence tired integrity

I have no obligation to deal with slime.

Terry Sanford

deal slime obligation

We have observed all kinds of things, including Cucumber Day. There was a Honeybee Week.

Terry Sanford

kinds day things week

You can't run this nation like a town meeting.

Terry Sanford

meeting nation run you

We just want to make sure the best candidates get the attention they deserve.

Terry Sanford

best deserve want attention

The worst of all outcomes is that the Sandinistas will defeat the democratic fighters, and consequently they would have it all their way.

Terry Sanford

will defeat worst way

Had there not been these safety valves of political parties and elections, we may very well have had no way to change except forceful overthrow of government.

Terry Sanford

political government change way

There is a hotline that runs from the college students to their high school buddies.

Terry Sanford

high high-school college school

A great many of us have been concerned about the presidential nomination system... whether or not we have drifted into a system that simply doesn't work so well any more.

Terry Sanford

us more great work

North Carolina is not going to be left behind.

Terry Sanford

going behind left north-carolina

I'd have supported Al Gore if he'd have been from Wisconsin.

Terry Sanford

been he gore wisconsin

I've been ostracized before in legislative bodies for voting against the majority. That doesn't bother me.

Terry Sanford

against me voting bother

I'm proud to be an Albert Gore Democrat.

Terry Sanford

albert gore democrat proud

The drafters of the Constitution... wisely put restraints on the president.

Terry Sanford

wisely put constitution president

We have accomplished our mission of stopping Iraq's drive to take over Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Middle East. We should begin to reduce our forces in Saudi Arabia, ever so slowly, and look to a more multinational force to keep the peace.

Terry Sanford

drive rest look peace

The main reason we've been the party out of power so long is we haven't had a good nominating process.

Terry Sanford

good party power long

Needed reform of the nominating procedures has been thwarted by the individual vested interests of the DNC members in maintaining the maze of primaries and caucuses.

Terry Sanford

been individual reform needed

Senators, in the end, must be elected.

Terry Sanford

in-the-end must end senators