George Bush actually said...

I have sought, and will continue to seek, a line-item veto to prevent such embarrassments and protect the American people from injudicious appropriation.

Context

Remarks at Dedication Ceremony of the Social Sciences Complex at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey

05/09/1991

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