#veto

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#enjoy #man #millions #money #nothing

There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#american people #community #decision #executive #form

And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French had said they'd veto any second resolution - which wasn't true, we now know. ↗

— Clare Short

#any #context #deceived #french #had

Be thrifty, but not covetous. ↗

— George Herbert

#thrifty

There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our 21st century America. ↗

— Rafael Correa

#america #been #century #consensus #foreign

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves. ↗

— John Milton

#modesty #rich #starves #true

It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#global #just #sit #states #veto

We saw there was no consensus in the U.N. Security Council. It was impossible, due to the threatened veto by some. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#council #due #impossible #saw #security

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy. ↗

— Chanakya

#balanced #contentment #covetousness #disease #equal

The news today that Bush has vowed to veto any legislation that reviews the security implications of the Dubai Port World's potential management of our ports is ludicrous and the entire Democratic Party is calling him to task for it. ↗

— John Conyers

#bush #calling #democratic #democratic party #dubai