Political Quotes

I regret that I am constrained to disapprove an important appropriation bill so near the close of the present session of Congress.

It is difficult to understand why under the Constitution it should be necessary to submit proposed legislation to Executive scrutiny and approval except to invoke the exercise of Executive judgment and invite independent Executive action.

I am advised by the Pension Bureau that the bill, if it becomes a law in its present form, would be inoperative.

There certainly ought to be a strong presumption that the case was fairly and justly determined by the Bureau.