Hostile Intent Quotes
He did indeed kill the Bank of the United States by exercising the Presidential Veto on the legislation renewing the Bank’s government charter. The Bank was privately owned but handled all the fiscal functions for the Government and holding the United States deposits. The Bank owners and executives were not supports of Jackson and opposed him on many issues. Jackson thought it outrageous that a private bank, not under the control of the people or the representatives of the people, should have a monopoly on the banking functions of the United States. Vetoes were very unusual then. All the presidents before Jackson together vetoed only 12 laws. Jackson himself vetoed 13 including the Bank of America.
He was a viper indeed and one of the worst and cruelest of the Roman Emperors.
The President was accused of "saber rattling" in the 1990 Iraq crisis.
It is not only in modern times that there were “litmus tests” for appointees. Franklin Pierce had been elected as a Democrat with a coalition that included Southerners who were able to dominate the weak Pierce precluding abolitionists from any appointments.
The Mormons have been the victims of more religious persecution and violence than any other religion in America. They became aggressive in defending themselves as this quotation illustrates.
He was criticizing the George W. Bush administration for attacking Iraq, a country which had not attacked the United States or Americans abroad while America did not attack those terrorists and countries which had killed Americans. For example, Hezbollah which blew up the Marine Barracks in Lebanon and the naval ship Cole.
Giuliani had designs on the Republican Presidential nomination. However, his professional experience had lttlle to do with foreign affairs or foreign policy. Also, as a liberal Republican on many of the social issues, he had the problem of appealing to the conservative right wing of the party. So he selected this principle which no one—left or right—really disagrees with. But the right wing generally castigates the left wing for being weak and inviting aggression and other difficulties. The result was that Giuliani could not get any traction with the right wing of his party and gave up his Presidential ambitions for 2012.
