Children in home-school conflict situations often receive a double message from their parents: "The school is the hope for your fu...ture, listen, be good and learn" and "the school is your enemy. . . ." Children who receive the "school is the enemy" message often go after the enemy--act up, undermine the teacher, undermine the school program, or otherwise exercise their veto power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The veto is a President's Constitutional right, given to him by the drafters of the Constitution because they wanted it as a check... against irresponsible Congressional action. The veto forces Congress to take another look at legislation that has been passed. I think this is a responsible tool for a president of the United States, and I have sought to use it responsibly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would prob...ably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our culture still holds mothers almost exclusively responsible when things go wrong with the kids. Sensing this ultimate accountab...ility, women are understandably reluctant to give up control or veto power. If the finger of blame was eventually going to point in your direction, wouldn't you be?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed f...or it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To expect to increase prices and then to maintain them at a higher level by means of a plan which must of necessity increase produ...ction while decreasing consumption is to fly in the face of an economic law as well established as any law of nature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The measure discriminates definitely against products which make up what has been universally considered a program of safe farming.... The bill upholds as ideals of American farming the men who grow cotton, corn, rice, swine, tobacco, or wheat and nothing else. These are to be given special favors at the expense of the farmer who has toiled for years to build up a constructive farming enterprise to include a variety of crops and livestock.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is quite a startling proposition, and a very novel one, I think, that there shall be absolutely no opportunity for the review i...n an appellate court, in cases involving such large amounts, of questions involving the construction of the statute under which the court is proceeding, or those various questions of law, many of them new, which necessarily arise in such cases. Neither the claimants, the Indians, nor the Government of the United States should be absolutely denied opportunity to bring their exceptions to review by some appellate tribunal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »