Line Item Veto Quotes

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

The President should have full opportunity ... of opposing whatever appropriations seemed to him objectionable without imperiling the success of others.

We as taxpayers don't have a line item veto.

Potential to alter permanently the political relationship between the President and Congress is enormous.... [It would] outmode contemporary informal negotiation processes between the political branches.

They called me Veto Corleone. Because I vetoed 2,500 separate line-items in the budget.

The president doesn't get a line-item veto, so all the budgetary approps stuff is with Congress.

We ought to start running the government like a private-sector business. I have that ability as CEO of our companies. I have line item vetoes, and if I didn't, we'd probably be out of business by now.

I have never been opposed to earmarks.

Any person would like a line item veto if the chief executive at that time agrees with their particular views.

My grandfather was a popular senator, known as an advocate for fiscal responsibility, including the line-item veto for the president.

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.