Order Quote by Stephen Colbert

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

— Tim Kaine

My grandfather was a popular senator, known as an advocate for fiscal responsibility, including the line-item veto for the president.

— Dorothy Bush Koch

Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months…

— Jim Cooper

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

“Being the World’s Most Powerful Leader is Easier Than You Think One of my first executive orders was to impose a moratorium on any…

— Nancy Omeara

I'm gonna get us to a balanced budget, President Bush didn't.

— Mitt Romney

I thought Jeb Bush would have made a good president. He was on the board of my foundation. He's very conservative, much too conservative…

— Michael Bloomberg

I will veto any tax increase.

— Susana Martinez

It's one of the few regrets of my presidency - that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better.…

— Barack Obama

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, 'Gee, isn't that wonderful?'

— Colin Powell

My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more than you had because it gets you…

— Clint Eastwood

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