Best Veto Quotes
51 Veto quotes by 45 unique authors
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I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they were going to remake it, I was…
— Sam Huntington
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The United States of America is a threat to world peace. Because what [America] is saying is that if you are afraid of a veto…
— Nelson Mandela
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It seems with every new day, we have a new veto threat from the president.
— Mitch McConnell
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I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps…
— Barack Obama
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The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it.
— Ronald Reagan
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Ribbons a-flutter and orchids a-tremble, Yearly the vigilant Daughters assemble, Affirming in fervid and firm resolutions Their permanent veto on all revolutions.
— Marya Mannes
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By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the…
— Mitch McConnell
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The U.N. Security Council did not to condemn the Qana massacre, due to the U.S. veto.
— Hassan Nasrallah
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Gov. Romney said he would veto the Dream Act. Gov. Romney essentially said the 11 million people ought to just go home, they ought to…
— David Plouffe
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My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto.
— Winston Churchill
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Congress knew Coolidge would veto the farm bill. There was more politics than relief in that bill.
— Will Rogers
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If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn the letters V-E-T-O!
— Ronald Reagan
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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…
— Barbara Jordan
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You got to have a courageous president to stand up and says, listen, if - if you send a bill to me that spends more…
— Rick Perry
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The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council…
— Vladimir Putin
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Every man has but one destiny" Veto Corleone
— Mario Puzo
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I know what it was like to not have a voice, so my daughter has a voice. I veto that voice when needed because at…
— Lorraine Toussaint
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If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen.
— Bill Owens
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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,…
— John Negroponte
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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…
— Amos Oz
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There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our…
— Rafael Correa
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I will veto any tax increase.
— Susana Martinez
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We saw there was no consensus in the U.N. Security Council. It was impossible, due to the threatened veto by some.
— Jose Maria Aznar
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Today, the most important political instrument in the hands of the opposition is the presidential veto.
— Donald Tusk
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I've criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There's plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve…
— Scott Brown
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