Blank check Quote by Sandra Day O'Connor

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

As Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated, even a state of war is not a blank check for a president to do whatever he wants.

— Edward Kennedy

“There are situations that a nation may be in, in which peace or war, abstracted from every other consideration, may be politically right or…

— Thomas Paine

“War is a convenient fix for government problems if it happens somewhere else. To other people.”

— Sherwood Smith

“The war has proved moreover that our free Government, like other free governments, though slow in its early movements, acquires in its progress a…

— James Madison

“... it would be better for our country and the world in general, if at least the few people who were capable of thought…

— Hermann Hesse

When the President decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from congress.

— Robert Reich

“a nation is totally geared to the waging of war, it had better ensure that war keeps occurring somewhere; and”

— James A. Michener

“It is vital that we not be made to seem wholly helpless in the opening moments of the war. Once a nation ceases to…

— Jim Butcher

“The fact that presidents have done something does not necessarily make it right or constitutional.”

— Chris Edelson

“It makes no since to fight a war that is already won.”

— Angela Brown

I'm not giving the president a blank check, period.

— Jim McDermott