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Every man has but one destiny" Veto Corleone -- Mario Puzo
It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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
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. -- Jim Cooper
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. -- Mitch McConnell
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
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
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
If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and injustices will all be left outside the door, then there is no good reason why talks cannot take place in an appropriate atmosphere. -- Martin McGuinness
The U.S. - the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that's hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan. -- Noam Chomsky
My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto. -- Winston Churchill
Using the right of veto would be shooting the Americans in the back. -- Dominique de Villepin
If you vote against act in the Senate, you would also veto it as president. -- Marco Rubio
Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity. -- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
"Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Holding back technology to reserve business models is like allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in order to protect their horseshoes. -- Don Tapscott
If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn the letters V-E-T-O! -- Ronald Reagan
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. -- Tony Evans
I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one. -- Barack Obama
Obviously the audience has veto power signified by whether they laugh or not, but you-not them-retain the ultimate power to decide what they're going to get the opportunity to laugh at. -- Franklyn Ajaye
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. -- John McCain
I think there [are] great economies that can be made starting with a round of base closings, ... I want the president to veto these pork-barrel spending bills which have grown to incredible obscene levels. I believe there are a number of weapons systems that have to be eliminated. -- John McCain
There can be no such things as an Irish nationalist accepting the loyalist veto and partition. You cannot claim to be an Irish nationalist if you consent to an internal six county settlement and if you are willing to negotiate the state of Irish society with a foreign government. -- Gerry Adams
Who knew, in 2000, that 'compassionate conservatism' meant bigger government, unrestricted government spending, government intrusion in personal matters, government ineptitude, and cronyism in disaster relief? Who knew, in 2000, that the only bill the president would veto, six years later, would be one on funding stem-cell research? A more accurate term for Mr. Bush's political philosophy might be incontinent conservatism. -- Christopher Buckley
How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can't say and what we can show and what we can't show - it's enough to make you throw up. The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Someone even called me Veto Corleone. Because I vetoed 2,500 separate line-items in the budget. -- Jeb Bush
I will veto any tax increase. -- Susana Martinez
If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen. -- Bill Owens
Today, the most important political instrument in the hands of the opposition is the presidential veto. -- Donald Tusk
The U.N. Security Council did not to condemn the Qana massacre, due to the U.S. veto. -- Hassan Nasrallah
We saw there was no consensus in the U.N. Security Council. It was impossible, due to the threatened veto by some. -- Jose Maria Aznar
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. -- Rafael Correa
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
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
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. -- Lorraine Toussaint
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
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. -- David Plouffe
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. -- Amos Oz
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
The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades. -- Vladimir Putin
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. -- Scott Brown
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
The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things. -- Mitch McConnell
How can you veto an idea you haven't heard? -- Jay Bennett
I will veto every single beer, um, bill with earmarks. -- John McCain
You cannot be a rational subject without veto-control on the level of mental action. -- Thomas Metzinger
It seems with every new day, we have a new veto threat from the president. -- Mitch McConnell
The president doesn't get a line-item veto, so all the budgetary approps stuff is with Congress. -- Tim Kaine
Congress knew Coolidge would veto the farm bill. There was more politics than relief in that bill. -- Will Rogers
While I always thought of making sequels to movies like 'Ghayal,' the filmmakers would almost always veto the idea. -- Sunny Deol
I think men should be able to veto women's abortions if they're willing to care for the child after it's born. -- Keith Ablow
I'm obviously younger, much better looking [then Jeorge W.Bush].He didn't veto things, he didn't bring order and fiscal restraint. -- Stephen Colbert
The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it. -- Ronald Reagan
I will veto any spending bill that contains funding for Planned Parenthood, facilities that perform abortion and all government family planning schemes. -- Ron Paul
Ribbons a-flutter and orchids a-tremble, Yearly the vigilant Daughters assemble, Affirming in fervid and firm resolutions Their permanent veto on all revolutions. -- Marya Mannes
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. -- Mahathir Mohamad
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
Now that we have the line-item veto there is no excuse for Congress to put pork in and no reason for the president not to line-item veto it out. -- John McCain
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I respect the Governor's position to veto SB1062, especially in light of the concerns brought up over the past week. I understand the concerns of people of good faith on all sides of this issue. -- Andy Tobin

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