Blank Check Quotes

Congress gave the President a blank check to wage an undefined war against an undefined enemy for an undefined period of time. We shouldn’t have given him that authority.

I'm not giving the president a blank check, period.

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

We are deeply disturbed by reports of today's airstrike on a funeral hall in Yemen, which, if confirmed, would continue the troubling series of attacks striking Yemeni civilians. U.S. security cooperation with Saudi Arabia is not a blank check. Even as we assist Saudi Arabia regarding the defense of their territorial integrity, we have and will continue to express our serious concerns about the conflict in Yemen and how it has been waged. In light of this and other recent incidents, we have initiated an immediate review of our already significantly reduced support to the Saudi-led Coalition and are prepared to adjust our support...

If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.

The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit.

Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor also brought balance to our highest court; most recently, as been repeated many times, when she cautioned about how war doesn't give a blank check.

You can’t give a man a blank check and then ask him why there’s no money in the bank.

Well, no American wants to in any way hurt our capabilities to national defense, but that doesn't mean an unlimited amount of money, and a blank check for anything they want at any time, for any purpose. Not at all.

Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.

We have long since made clear that a state of war is not a blank check for the President when it comes to the rights of the Nation’s citizens.

I am critical of modernity giving science and technology a blank check as if it were the fountain of all truth. That is not true. And I think I may have introduced a word which has now caught on quite a bit, scientism. Science is good. It simply reports a discovery.

Sometimes I feel like a 16-year-old who's got a blank check.

Never give an artist like me carte blanche: he would think it's simply toilet paper.