Quotes About Mandate

Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.

There are three, and only three, kinds of men in the world: cynics, fanatics, and Mandate Schoolmen.

I was authorized to do everything that I did.

I teach high school math. I sell a product to a market that doesn't want it, but is forced by law to buy it.

By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark this: The Republicans did not have a single woman to testify in support of the contraception mandate. That is not a hearing; that is a sham.

Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda.

I ran on the platform of moderation and won the election by a large margin. By virtue of the strong mandate that I received from the electorate, I am committed to operating in the framework of moderation, which calls inter alia for a balance between realism and the pursuit of the ideals of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The corporation's legally defined mandate is to pursue, relentlessly and without exception, its own self-interest, regardless of the often harmful consequences it might cause to others.

Don't let your mandate come from the grumbling of the crowd. Get your cues from God and the mission He has given you.

Whatever films I make, the mandate is that it should touch the audiences and engage them from the first scene.

I have a mandate to win and that's what I want to do.

The mandate given to me was one of change.

I felt a mandate to go on TV.

I would like to see a mandate for social and emotional learning absolutely mandated in every state.

Some people have a mandate that you can't change.

The CDU is willing to continue to take responsibility for our country. We want to do justice to the government mandate.

We struggled to understand how a contract with the so-called secular state could mandate some kind of spiritual ritual.

Congress still preserved its constitutionally mandated power of the purse.

Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission

East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory.

The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.

The church is the hands and feet of Jesus, and it is our duty to continue the mandate to protect the innocent, while turning perpetrators in to the proper authorities.

Gifted people cannot escape a sense of calling, a mandate to put their abilities to the test of time and constructive purpose. This is the true legacy of giftedness, the sense of responsibility to leave something valuable behind.