Election Quote by Lincoln Chafee

Well the first thing I want to say is mandate, my ass... We've been convinced that 26% of the registered voters is actually a…

— 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

Mandates are not objective realities but subjective interpretations of elections sold successfully by the winning candidate or party.

— Thomas E. Mann

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

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

— Jeremy Corbyn

After every election, the victors try to define and act on their mandate.

— Neera Tanden

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

Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing…

— Ron Fournier

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

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

— Ezra G. Levin

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the…

— Joseph Stalin

We spent the election campaign really canvassing where we were as a nation, deciding who had the mandate to change that up going forward.…

— Jacinda Ardern