Bills Quote by Jim Cooper

Under our Constitution, presidents have something called 'veto power.

— Hillary Clinton

The president doesn't get a line-item veto, so all the budgetary approps stuff is with Congress.

— Tim Kaine

Working with Republicans in Congress we've already signed 88 pieces of legislation. We get no credit. They always say, well, President Trump really needs…

— Donald Trump

Even the country's first president chafed at the limits placed on him by the writers of the U.S. Constitution. From the nature of the…

— George Washington

You got to have a courageous president to stand up and says, listen, if - if you send a bill to me that spends…

— Rick Perry

The veto is a President's Constitutional right, given to him by the drafters of the Constitution because they wanted it as a checkagainst irresponsible…

— Gerald R. Ford

The first presidential veto, by George Washington, was a veto of Alexander Hamilton's formula for apportioning the House, and the one that Washington preferred…

— Kenneth Prewitt

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

I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off…

— Barack Obama

Now that we have the line-item veto there is no excuse for Congress to put pork in and no reason for the president not…

— John McCain

I will veto any spending bill that contains funding for Planned Parenthood, facilities that perform abortion and all government family planning schemes.

— Ron Paul

Any president has to work with Congress.

— Mac Thornberry