Top 35 Veto Quotes

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.

Berlin has traditionally backed a rules-based eurozone in which every member state is responsible for its own finances, including bank bailouts, with political union limited to a fiscal overlord’s possessing veto power over national budgets that violate the rules.

We saw there was no consensus in the U.N. Security Council. It was impossible, due to the threatened veto by some.

Heck, nobody gets along perfectly. But what we have is respect for one another. We have a system where one guy can veto anything.

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.

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.

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.

I know what it was like to not have a voice, so my daughter has a voice. I veto that voice when needed because at the end of the day I am the grown-up, but I hear her.

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.

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.

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.

If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen.

Today, the most important political instrument in the hands of the opposition is the presidential veto.

It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.

When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I’ve used it in the past, and I expect we will have opportunity to use it in the future. That’s the nature of the business.

I’ve criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There’s plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve problems. It’s not bailouts. What made America great? Free markets, free enterprise, manufacturing, job creation. That’s how we’re gonna do it, not by enlarging government.

Using the right of veto would be shooting the Americans in the back.

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.

As a longstanding Democrat who has supported and defended President Obama on his treatment of Israel throughout his presidency, I am deeply disturbed by the Administration’s decision not to veto UN Security Council Resolution 2334 and Secretary Kerry’s subsequent one sided speech.

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.

I’ve made a commitment that any tax increase, I’m going to veto. It’s the worst thing we could do. We have an amount of money to spend. That’s it.

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.

I will veto any tax increase.

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

Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years.

There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our 21st century America.

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.

A country outside the euro zone cannot have a veto over countries in the euro zone.

I cannot support an indefinite backstop arrangement where the E.U. holds a veto over our ability to exit.

As governor of Indiana, if I were presented a bill that legalized discrimination against any person or group, I would veto it.

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.

The U.N. Security Council did not to condemn the Qana massacre, due to the U.S. veto.

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.

If government is so keen to let local people have a veto in stopping wind farms, why does it not allow local people to say no to fracking?

It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.