Mandates Quotes

It's a mandate for you to do in office what you said you would do on the campaign trail.

— Karl Rove

Health care providers, saving lives daily in our emergency rooms, live with federal mandates.

— Barbara Ann Radnofsky

Regulatory mandates have a disproportionate effect on small businesses.

— Ajit Pai

Obama had a mandate for change and Trump clearly does not.

— Ezra G. Levin

Taxpayers don't need any more big government mandates that have proven to be disastrous.

— Mike Rogers

Many businesses oppose any government mandates, even if they are already following them.

— Madeleine M. Kunin

You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.

— Steve Jobs

Our mandate is simple: raise up a generation that can openly display the raw power of God

— Bill Johnson

Too often, we see people who are prevented from practicing their religion because of a government mandate.

— Carly Fiorina

I also recognise that the mandate was given by hundreds of thousands of ordinary people joining in the political process.

— Jeremy Corbyn

The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and…

— Warren E. Burger

The Obama Administration's obsession with forcing mandates on the American people has now reached a new low by violating the conscience rights…

— Marco Rubio

Our mandate is to be a nation of laws. And the Supreme Court is the place where we look to safeguard our…

— Frank Lautenberg

If I'm president, we're not going to have people dying on the streets. I don't call it a mandate, I just say…

— Donald Trump

“Funny how mandates you don’t even agree with can still chisel themselves across your subconscious.”

— Cara McKenna

Rand Paul and Chris Christie both said vaccinations should be a choice, not a government mandate. Because when have Republicans ever told…

— Bill Maher

Learning emerges from discovery, not directives; reflection, not rules; possibilities, not prescriptions; diversity, not dogma; creativity and curiosity, not conformity and certainty;…

— Stephanie Pace Marshall

With this imaginary mandate from God, men have not allowed women to be given the educational, religous and social freedoms that are…

— Frederick Lenz

I got a letter from this lady of Russian and Jewish descent. She asked me if I was a racist because I…

— Henry Louis Gates

The liberation of Kuwait has begun. In conjunction with the forces of our coalition partners, the United States has moved under the…

— George H. W. Bush

Cancer is a passport to intimacy. It is an invitation, maybe even a mandate, to enter the most vital arenas of human…

— Bruce Feiler

The reason Gov. Romney passed Romneycare as governor of Massachusetts in 2006 was because many Republicans viewed health care reform, mandates and…

— Ari Fleischer

I don't know that the conservatives truly realize this yet, but they are talking about repealing the mandate that says you must…

— Jonathan Karl

[The Democrats] are sitting there thinking they really won. They won the popular vote. "We're only talking about this election Kellyanne [Conway].…

— Rush Limbaugh

Trudeau motivated people between the ages of 18 to 35 to vote, and 82 per cent of them voted for him. That…

— Kevin O'Leary

The mandate entails a generous synthesis of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. The title requires the expert to be truly…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

I believe that during the intervention of NATO in Kosovo there is an element nobody can question: the air attacks, the bombs,…

— Vaclav Havel

Margaret [Hodge] is obviously entitled to do what she wishes to do. I would ask her to think for a moment, a…

— Jeremy Corbyn

Here's the problem with Common Core. The Department of Education, like every federal agency, will never be satisfied. They will not stop…

— Marco Rubio

Winning control of the Senate would allow Republicans to pass a whole range of measures now being held up by Reid, often…

— Charles Krauthammer

The men who are to protect the community against violent aggression easily turn into the most dangerous aggressors. They transgress their mandate.…

— Ludwig von Mises

The worst thing we can do is to assume that the Electoral College [voting] resulting in the election of Donald Trump represents…

— Willie Parker

[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.

— George Will

[Donald Trump] has a huge mandate and they're still in denial and do not even know it yet.

— Rush Limbaugh

If I don't deliver a majority mandate in 2019, fire me.

— Kevin O'Leary

I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates.

— Chuck Grassley

[Donald] Trump has more of a mandate than any president since Ronald Reagan.

— Rush Limbaugh

There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.

— Ronald Reagan

We as Christians have a mandate to be nonconformists.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

My mandate...is to promote the protection, rights and welfare of children...

— Olara Otunnu