Vetoed Quotes

#1. Clinton vetoed the repeal of the marriage tax. I guess Bill figures if he's married, then we all have to suffer.

Jay Leno

#2. When Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the same-sex marriage bill, my blood was boiling. I had been silent, but that night, Brad and I watched the news and saw all these young people pouring out on Santa Monica Boulevard venting their rage, and I said, 'I have to speak out.'

George Takei

#3. When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the U.N. vetoed several resolutions right away, calling for an end to the fighting and so on, and that was a hideous invasion.

Noam Chomsky

#4. We vetoed five income tax increases during my time as governor. We cut business taxes $2.3 billion, and we cut regulation by one-third of what my predecessor put in place.

Chris Christie

#5. My father was the child of academics and was probably destined to become an academic himself but vetoed that idea. Bailed, dropped out of graduate school and just went to work for an insurance company. But the house was full of books and music and all of that.

Lorrie Moore

#6. The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.

Clark Kerr

#7. Leo had wanted to paint a giant message on the bottom of the hull-WASSUP? with a smiley-face-but Annabeth had vetoed the idea.

Rick Riordan

#8. Someone even called me Veto Corleone. Because I vetoed 2,500 separate line-items in the budget.

Jeb Bush

#9. A hastily written "Civil Rights Act" was rushed through Congress. President Andrew Johnson immediately vetoed it, noting that the right to confer citizenship rested with the several states, and that "the tendency of the bill is to resuscitate the spirit of rebellion".

Eustace Mullins

#10. Seeing that the 97's are a democracy through and through, inevitably, some of these tons of songs I write will get vetoed. The first time that happened (and every time thereafter), I consoled myself with the thought that sooner or later I'd make a solo record

Rhett Miller

#11. Jack furiously chopped vegetables. Captain Dependable! Wait, we vetoed that one. The Divine Door Maker? Too much? Hmm ... Handsome Hero, but maybe I should move away from alliteration. Something sleek. Our Lord and Master Jack.

Kiersten White

#12. If the president signs any of it, good. If he vetoes, it will be clarifying. Who then will be the party of no? The vetoed legislation would become the framework for a 2016 GOP platform. Let the debate begin.

Charles Krauthammer

#13. The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror ... so today I vetoed it

George W. Bush

#14. A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the bones of their proponents.

Ambrose Bierce

#15. Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

John Dewey

#16. You know what it is to laugh at death, Arutha. You'll never be the same man again.

Raymond E. Feist

#17. The seductive invitation of metamorphosis - of turning into something other - has continued to suffuse fantasies of identity; on the one hand holding out a way of escape from humanity, on the other annihilating the self.

Marina Warner

#18. You need a certain standard of literacy, moral and ethical values, to be able to run a one man, one vote system.

Lee Kuan Yew

#19. Cal's attraction to her was unstoppable - undeniable. Like a thunderbolt piercing his heart, it beat only for her and had since the first time he saw her.

CCX
The Jinn Cycle
Book Three
By Nini Church

Nini Church

#20. I already know the first. I killed Darken Rahl with the first. It states that people can be made to believe any lie, either because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it's true.

Anonymous

#21. I am really good at making Top Ramen. I also love it when my mom makes vegetarian lasagna for me.

Zendaya

#22. In contrast, for the 2016 election, the political war chest accumulated by the Kochs and their small circle of friends was projected to be $889 million, completely dwarfing the scale of money that was considered deeply corrupt during the Watergate days.

Jane Mayer

#23. Life demands that we embrace some forms of death.

Sunday Adelaja

#24. Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.

Joe Chung

#25. All we can do is try, do our best. Give as much time as we have to give, one day at a time. One breath at a time

Jasinda Wilder

#26. You have to give guys tools to win with, and if they have success with them then they believe in you. If you don't have anything in your bag to work with, then they won't believe.

Charles Haley

#27. He was trapped in a haircut he no longer believed in.

- King James Version

Billy Bragg

#28. That story you're scared to share
that story has the power to change both your life and the lives of others.

Jo Ann Fore

#29. There was something about being alone in places that were usually filled with people that made them seem particularly empty when it was just you.

Morgan Matson