Actors Quote by Gil Scott-Heron

Kellyanne's [Conway] pointing out, you people say we don't have a mandate? You don't have a [Democratic] party. You've lost a thousand legislative seats.…

— Rush Limbaugh

Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004 election was…

— Lincoln Chafee

Why is there no mandate? You [Democrats] have lost 60 congressional seats since President [Barack] Obama got there. You lost more than a dozen…

— Kellyanne Conway

You see, in government, people give you a mandate, and you've got to fulfil that. Ours is very clear. Fix our public finances and…

— Enda Kenny

We're not gonna misread our mandate.

— Mitch McConnell

We have to enforce the individual mandate. We're losing a lot of money that is not coming into the system.

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Jeremy Corbyn

Mandates are rarely won on election night. They are earned after Inauguration Day by leaders who spend their political capital wisely, taking advantage of…

— Ron Fournier

From the point of view of legislation of the Constitution, my mandate has been given by my constituency. So it's only my constituency that…

— Ilya Ponomarev

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

— Karl Rove

You can't win a majority mandate unless you get back 60 per cent of the votes between the ages of 18 and 35. It's a fact.

— Kevin O'Leary

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

— Willie Parker