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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 impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't.

  • I will veto every single beer, um, bill with earmarks.

    Beer   Bills   Veto  
  • Let someone else take a crack at [your story]. Sometimes, even after time has passed, we're just too close to the thing. You don't want to kill your darlings or, maybe it's the opposite: you just want to kill all of it with cleansing fire. Let someone else confirm or veto your feelings. They'll also bring new questions and complexities to the table, too.

  • Let there be an end to the arrogance of the big powers who miss no opportunity to put the rights of the people in question. Africa's absence from the club of those who have the right to veto is unjust and should be ended.

    Thomas Sankara (1988). “Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Pr
  • 'I haven't used the veto pen very often since I've been in office,' Obama told NPR. 'Now, I suspect there are going to be some times where I've got to pull that pen out. And I'm going to defend gains that we've made in healthcare; I'm going to defend gains that we've made on the environment and clean air and clean water.'

    Npr   Air   Water  
  • It was reported today that Michelle Obama wants her mother to move into the White House with them. Yes. This is expected to be the first time Barack uses his veto power.

    Mother   Moving   White  
    "American Morning" with John Roberts, www.cnn.com. November 12, 2008.
  • The abuse of the veto power has become so predictable that frequently resolutions are not even tabled because of the certainty of a veto against their adoption. Necessary discussion is thereby suppressed. Concerted action by the Security Council, the General Assembly and other United Nations agencies is necessary to prevent major human rights violations, stop ongoing breaches and provide remedies to victims.

    "Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order". August 07, 2013.
  • 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 was one that Thomas Jefferson produced, and that was one partisan issue. The apportionment formula that Jefferson produced gave an extra seat to Virginia. Everybody knew what that game was. Look, partisan interest in the census is simply nothing new.

    Virginia   Games   Issues  
    "Census, Uncensored". Interview with Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. June 26, 2009.
  • How can you veto an idea you haven't heard?

    Ideas   Veto   Heard  
  • 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 like, 'This is not going to work. I'm going to completely veto this show. I am not going to watch this show.' But now, I love it.

    "Sam Witwer, Sam Huntington & Meaghan Rath Talk BEING HUMAN Season Two". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 29, 2012.
  • Pass legislation. When Obama signs, you've shown seriousness and the ability to govern. When he vetoes, you've clarified the differences between party philosophies and prepared the ground for 2016.

  • 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.

    Order   Law   People  
    1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY
  • I very early caught on that the editor of Cincinnati Post had something specific in mind that he was looking for, and I tried to accommodate him in order to get published. I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn't please him, so he sent me packing.

    Order   Editors   Ideas  
  • I was not elected to produce a pile of vetoes.

    William J. Clinton “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1995, Bk. 1, January 1 to June 30, 1995”, Government Printing Office
  • The president doesn't get a line-item veto, so all the budgetary approps stuff is with Congress.

    President   Lines   Stuff  
    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • To achieve effectiveness and legitimacy it is time to scrap the right of veto given to permanent members of the UN, or at least severely restrict its use. It is also time to either abandon the idea of permanent membership or broaden it to reflect the rise of non-Western states to the status of global leaders (e.g. Brazil, India, Indonesia, Turkey, South Africa), and to downgrade European representation by either giving the European Union a single seat or rotating a European state among Germany, France, UK, and Italy.

    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • The real issue at hand is how God is going to respond to a culture when the majority of the people seek to veto Him.

    Christian   Real   Issues  
    Tony Evans (2014). “One Nation Under God: His Rule Over Your Country”, p.27, Moody Publishers
  • I appreciate the decision made by Gov. Brewer to veto this legislation. I hope that we can now move on from this controversy and assure the American people that everyone is welcome to live, work and enjoy our beautiful State of Arizona.

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

  • 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 self-deport. President Romney, if he is elected, is not going to fix our immigration system.

    Dream   Home   Self  
  • My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto.

    Hands   Silent   Veto  
    Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.141, Da Capo Press
  • The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power; that Hell should be able to veto Heaven.

    C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.

    Baby   Men   Principles  
    Robert A. Heinlein (2013). “The Man Who Sold the Moon and Orphans of the Sky”, p.206, Baen Publishing Enterprises
  • The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it.

    Choices   Special   Pork  
    United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”
  • I thought that the United Nations is a creature of the five super-powers who were given veto powers. I don't like veto powers at all.

    "Interview with Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad". Interview with Sue Onslow, commonwealth-oral-history-project.blogs.sas.ac.uk. February 11, 2015.
  • 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 in the Security Council, you can go outside and take action and violate the sovereignty of other countries. That is the message they are sending to the world. That must be condemned in the strongest terms.

    Country   Iraq   America  
    "Nelson Mandela: U.S Is A Threat To World Peace". Interview with Tom Masland, www.newsweek.com. September 9, 2002.
  • Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.

    Lawrence Lessig (2004). “Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity”, p.151, Penguin
  • Even Boris Johnson doesn't think there's going to be a United States of Europe. ​And I think there's a real question here that you're being asked to make a decision that's irreversible we cant change it, we wake up on Friday and we don't like it, and we're being sold it on a lie because they lied about the cost of Europe, they lied about Turkey's entrance to Europe, they lied about the European army because we've got a veto for that they put that in their leaflets and they've lied about this here tonight too and its not good enough you deserve the truth you deserve the truth.

    Friday   Real   Lying  
    Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
  • Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.

    Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.244
  • I think men should be able to veto women's abortions if they're willing to care for the child after it's born.

    Children   Men   Thinking  
    "Fox News expert shocks viewers as he says: 'Men should VETO women's abortions'" by Rebecca Pocklington, www.mirror.co.uk. May 6, 2015.
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