Obama: Separation of Powers ‘Very Frustrating Sometimes for the President’
BARACK OBAMA: “I also think that one of the great advantages of the United States system, even though it is very frustrating sometimes for the president is that power is distributed across a lot of different institutions - it’s what we call separation of powers and centralization ... The advantage is that even if we end up with someone that I don’t consider a great president, there is a limit to some of the damage that they can do because — and I am sure Republicans feel that about me. They are glad that there is the distribution of powers because they imagine that I’d have turned the United States into Cuba I suppose. They tend to exaggerate a little bit on how I see the world. But that’s why I think the United States has been stable.”