Veto Quotes

The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I`m going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America.

By vowing to veto any tax and saying it would be harmful to the state, he made it difficult for anyone else to do it,

Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years.

It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.

It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.

There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.

I`ve been very honest rather than allowing it to come here and meet a veto, part of it or all of it, when it`s fundamentally a good bill.

And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French had said they`d veto any second resolution - which wasn`t true, we now know.

President Bush has threatened to use his first veto to prevent scientists from using Federal funds to search for these cures. This is wrong.

It is unbelievable that at a time of high unemployment this administration is threatening to veto legislation that would actually create real jobs.

The news today that Bush has vowed to veto any legislation that reviews the security implications of the Dubai Port World`s potential management of our ports is ludicrous and the entire Democratic Party is calling him to task for it.

We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by a permanent member, the vote-counting became a secondary consideration.

If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and injustices will all be left outside the door, then there is no good reason why talks cannot take place in an appropriate atmosphere.

Gov. Schwarzenegger has done the right thing in promising to veto this illegal bill. It`s evidence that CWA of California and other pro-family groups got their message through to him: `We don`t want counterfeit marriage,`

I would veto it,

Montana has a very narrow line-item veto as defined by the constitution and presented by the Constitutional Convention, ... I don`t believe the governor can strike a condition without striking an appropriation.