“My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto.”
Winston Churchill
“Let's build a monument for the veto. Let's build a monument for impotence and incapacity.”
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
“But the matter of veto, I think it becomes part of the process of negotiations,”
Thabo Mbeki
“He vetoed the foreign aid bill because he wanted to increase foreign aid by 30 percent, and he wanted to take it out of the Social Security surplus,”
Tom DeLay
“We're also pleased that the governor vetoed two other pro-homosexual bills. One of them effectively would have silenced pro-family candidates on issues of sexual morality, and the other would have hampered efforts to collect petition signatures to put a state constitutional amendment protecting marriage on the ballot.”
Robert Knight
“If the bill returns to the same form it was in last year, the governor will veto it again.”
Dan Hopkins
“We haven't seen Rep. Boyd's bill, but the governor does have concerns. As he expressed in his veto message last year, rape is a heinous crime and every victim deserves compassionate and comprehensive treatment. The use of emergency contraception is a deeply personal decision, and victims are entitled to receive detailed and balanced information for that decision.”
