Veto Quotes

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. Barbara Jordan
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If I saw a restaurant owner refuse to serve a gay couple, I wouldn't eat there anymore. As governor of Indiana, if I were presented a bill that legalized discrimination against any person or group, I would veto it. Mike Pence
Gay Group Saw Would Restaurant Indiana Eat Couple Were Governor Discrimination Person Veto Owner Any Refuse Anymore Against Bill Serve Presented
Giving Northern Europe a veto over Southern Europe's budgets will not hold a monetary union together. The euro zone will continue to need the weaker countries to stomach decades of high unemployment to grind down wages. Austan Goolsbee
Together Will Giving Down Weaker High High Unemployment Countries Over Budgets Wages Continue Southern Unemployment Decades Stomach Veto Northern Hold Grind Euro Union Europe Monetary Zone Need
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. Clare Short
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I cannot support an indefinite backstop arrangement where the E.U. holds a veto over our ability to exit. Dominic Raab
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Using the right of veto would be shooting the Americans in the back. Dominique de Villepin
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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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My grandfather was a popular senator, known as an advocate for fiscal responsibility, including the line-item veto for the president. Dorothy Bush Koch
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To say that I'm going to veto something that I haven't read is just - or sign something that I haven't read - I don't think is good policy for any chief executive. Doug Ducey
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A country outside the euro zone cannot have a veto over countries in the euro zone. Francois Hollande
Country Outside Countries Over Veto Cannot Euro Zone
The immoral veto of the United States allowed the Israelis, with impunity, to destroy Lebanon. Right in front of all of us as we stood there watching, a resolution in the council was prevented. Hugo Chavez
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In order to build anything from factories to schools to hospitals, one must jump through a series of regulatory hoops, giving EPA veto power over any major projects. Jim Inhofe
Giving Power Build Projects Hoops Must Through Factories Hospitals Over Major Schools Jump Veto Any Order Anything EPA Regulatory Series
To make a division of power effectual, a veto in one form or another is indispensable. The right of each to judge for itself of the extent of the power allotted to its share, and to protect itself in its exercise, is what, in reality, is meant by a division of power. John C. Calhoun
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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. John Conyers
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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. John McCain
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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, the vote-counting became a secondary consideration. John Negroponte
Vote Regret Face Believe Secondary Consideration Member Would Threat Became Permanent Been Close Veto Explicit
Authors are free to ignore their editors' advice. I often avail myself of this veto power - sometimes out of a pigheadedness for which I'll pay the price. Lionel Shriver
Myself Sometimes Free Power Advice Pay Out Price Editors Veto Authors Often Which Avail Ignore
It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Sit Few States Global Veto Just
We make all the decisions on our records... We have complete veto power. Mike D
Power Complete Our Records Make Veto Decisions
As governor of Indiana, if I were presented a bill that legalized discrimination against any person or group, I would veto it. Mike Pence
Group Would Indiana Were Governor Discrimination Person Veto Any Against Bill Presented
No self-respecting country - especially one with our clout and proud history - should sign up to a proposal that surrenders the power to veto our foreign and trade policy to another entity. Priti Patel
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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 money than what we've coming in, I'll veto it. I mean, I'm going to try to work with you the best I can, but I'm going to veto it. Rick Perry
Work Best Me You Money Try President Says More Courageous Got Coming Up Than Send Veto Going Listen Mean Bill Stand Stand Up
I will veto any tax increase. Susana Martinez
Will Increase Veto Any Tax Tax Increase
When one's greatest 'world stage' ambition is a non-voting seat on the U.N. Security Council five years down the road, one would not want to say anything to hurt the feelings of the veto holders in Moscow or Beijing. We get it. But let's at least be honest about all this, please. Enough of the 'Canada is back' slogans already. Terry Glavin
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I realised that if we were not in the E.U., there were people in the E.U. who were also members of NATO that would veto our joining NATO. Toomas Hendrik Ilves
People NATO Our Members Would Joining Also Were Veto Realised Who
I think if you hearken back to partial-birth abortion... everybody said, you know, it's not constitutional. It can't pass; it can't go anywhere, and it took time to do that, and it even had to succeed a presidential veto. But it eventually did. Trent Franks
Time You Abortion Think Everybody Took Back Presidential Constitutional Had Know Pass Said Go Did Veto Anywhere Succeed Even Eventually
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