Quotes About Mandate

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 an overwhelming win.

One of the noxious features of Obamacare was its forced march into a single, federally designed package of health benefits.

I voted to repeal the individual mandate in Obamacare... I think people appreciate the fact that they know where you stand.

If we had a populist president who didn't alienate so many persuadable voters, who took full advantage of a strong economy, and who had the political cunning displayed by Modi or Benjamin Netanyahu or Viktor Orban, the liberal belief in a hidden left-of-center mandate might be exposed as a fond delusion.

We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.

You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so.

If the federal government can mandate what we have to spend our own money on, then the federal government can make us buy something even if we are morally opposed to paying for it.

Nationalism and anti-nationalism is a matter of perception. You cannot mandate who is a nationalist and what is not.

The opposition's role is meaningful when voters elect an opposition with an elected mandate to speak for Singaporeans.

My question becomes, 'If we want to empower people with higher pay, there are probably better ways to do it that are more enduring than simply a federal mandate on wage level.'

Even beyond policy considerations, Romneycare was a horrible model to suggest for the federal government because the Constitution does not give Congress the power to impose an individual insurance mandate.

Even in the wilderness with scarce resources, God mandates a pause for Sabbath for the community:

The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.

The president asserted with conviction that the United States had a divine mandate to expand in order to demonstrate the way of life of a free and godly society to the rest of the world.

Indeed, redemption through Christ represents a reaffirmation of the creation mandate, not its annulment. When people are saved by God through faith in Christ they are not only being saved from their sins, they are saved in order to resume the tasks mandated at creation, the task of caring for and cultivating a world that honors God and reflects his character and glory.

In fact, the US is the only country besides Papua New Guinea that doesn't mandate paid leave. The United States. The country of family values.

As a physician and a U.S. senator, I have warned since the very beginning about many troubling aspects of Mr. Obama's unprecedented health-insurance mandate. Not only does he believe he can order you to buy insurance, the president also incorrectly equates health insurance coverage with medical care.

A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capital as polarized as Washington.

We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done.

We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.

It was a dialogue of the deaf. The British refused to recognize the representative authority of the congresses or its leaders, and insisted on Arab acceptance of the Balfour Declaration and the terms of the Mandate that had succeeded it—the antithesis of every substantive Arab demand—as a precondition for discussion.

In a democracy, nothing is more sacred than the mandate given by the people.

The health care law's individual mandate forces nearly all individuals to buy health insurance or pay a penalty. The mandate cannot be severed from the rest of the law because it is the primary mechanism through which the law's changes are supported. Without the mandate, the law collapses.

It has always been a sign of desperation that racial-preference supporters argue that the government can honor the constitutional mandate not to discriminate on the basis of race only by discriminating on the basis of race.