Mandate Quotes

1. "Government in our democracy, state and national, must be neutral in matters of religious theory, doctrine, and practice. It may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another or even against the militant opposite. The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality between religion and religion, and between religion and nonreligion.[Epperson v. Arkansas, 393 U.S. 97, 1968.]"
Author: Abe Fortas

2. "Do not sag with exhaustion. There is no mandate; only opportunity. Our culture fosters inattention; we are all creatures of that culture. But by making your way through this book—by merely picking it up, perhaps—you, reader, are in a new culture, one that values looking. The unbelievable strata of trifling, tremendous things to observe are there for the observing. Look!"
Author: Alexandra Horowitz

3. "And in terms of their crown jewel legislative achievement: who knew that when asked, 'will government impose a new federal mandate requiring middle class Americans to buy health insurance whether they can afford it or not?' The answer would be 'Yes we can!'"
Author: Artur Davis

4. "Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates."
Author: Ben Bernanke

5. "Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people."
Author: Billy Crudup

6. "Keeping demons from this world is your mandate, a mandate from heaven. And a mandate from heaven isn't something you can just ignore."
Author: Cassandra Clare

7. "President Obama and Democrats won a mandate to move us forward with jobs, healthcare reform, equality, and nation building here at home."
Author: Christine Pelosi

8. "The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate."
Author: Christopher Hitchens

9. "Giving people favors is a time-honored way of gaining loyalty. Pharmaceutical reps do it. The salespeople manning cosmetic counters do it. Lobbyists do it. Men with big crushes on impossibly beautiful women do it. Gifts work on our feelings in a couple of ways: they change the way we experience something, and they push our "reciprocate!" button. When we have the mandate to be objective and an incentive not to be, our biases often win the day-even if we don't think they will. Favors deeply affect our preferences and our loyalties."
Author: Dan Ariely

10. "The greatest spiritual leaders in history have all preached love for others as the basis for all happiness, and never did they accompany such mandates with a list of unlovable actions or deeds. They never said, love everybody except for the gays. Love everybody except for the homeless. Love everybody except for the drug users. Love everybody except for the gang members, or those covered in ink, or the spouse abusers. They didn't tell us it was okay to love everybody with the exception of the "trailer trash," those living in poverty, or the illegal immigrants. They didn't tell us it was okay to love everybody except for our ex-lovers, our lovers' ex lovers, or our ex-lovers' lovers. The mandate was pretty damn clear, wasn't it?Love others.Period."
Author: Dan Pearce

11. "Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?"
Author: Dan Rather

12. "There's plenty of people who can sing OK that make terrific records, and I love them from afar. But when I make a record, I need great voices. That's always my mandate."
Author: David Foster

13. "Of course, the strippers also take pains not to appear too innocent, valorous, or bookishly inclined. (In direct opposition to the Swayze Mandate of 1987, everybody puts Baby in a goddamn corner.)"
Author: Diablo Cody

14. "Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship."
Author: Don Tapscott

15. "Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good."
Author: Douglas B. Reeves

16. "In every known culture,humans experience joy, sadness, disgust, anger, fear, and surprise. In everyknown culture, these emotions are indicated by the same facial expressions.This empirical observation, which is predicted and mandated by thestructural logic of evolution, is known as the psychic unity of mankind. (Iprefer the term "psychological unity of humankind," but I didn't invent it.)"
Author: Eliezer Yudkowsky

17. "Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates... Instead, they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service, should learn to think and act as a mass."
Author: Ernesto Guevara

18. "To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us."
Author: Fatos Nano

19. "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."
Author: Felicity Huffman

20. "America's egalitarian mandate reflects the liberality of the creator, and thus countermands, by divine witness, all feudal and aristocratic structures. It also parallels the Jewish concept of "repair the world", or Tikkun ha'olam, which holds that the human spirit is in partnership with God to help finish the work of creation."
Author: Forrest Church

21. "The truly longstanding tradition in the church is that some are called to celibacy. Some feel called to it. But the church has never supported that celibacy be mandated for someone not called to it. It's never imposed on someone."
Author: Gene Robinson

22. "Stimulus spending, permanent bailouts, government takeovers, and federal mandates have all failed our nation. America's employers are afraid to invest in an economy racked with uncertainty over what Washington's next set of rules, regulations, mandates, and tax hikes will look like."
Author: Geoff Davis

23. "The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence humans have ever committed."
Author: Gil Bailie

24. "On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to the Imperial Palace I thought I would be questioned on the army's point of view."
Author: Hideki Tojo

25. "It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved."
Author: Irwin Edman

26. "You are created with a mandate! You have all you need to fulfill it."
Author: Jaachynma N.E. Agu

27. "I was really bright as a kid and tested well, and it was clear that I was going to get scholarships to any schools I wanted. My dad always said I could be an engineer; at that time it was the elite of society: steady job, working in science, which was then the answer to every problem we had. It was kind of a mandate. Kind of a dream he had for me."
Author: James Wood

28. "I'm just opposed to a pure inflation-only mandate in which the only thing a central bank cares about is inflation and not employment."
Author: Janet Yellen

29. "Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities."
Author: Jared Polis

30. "You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so."
Author: Jean Marie Le Pen

31. "Some of us as individuals find abortion offensive to our most basic principles or morality, but that cannot control our decision,' she said. 'Our obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mandate our own moral code."
Author: Joan Biskupic

32. "Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call ‘the mandate of heaven', but life for the peasant changes little."
Author: Kenneth Minogue

33. "I only have disdain for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He raised taxes and has increased regulations. What else is new? He's a bully who wants to micro-manage people's lives by mandate, not persuasion."
Author: Mark Skousen

34. "A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly."
Author: Max Hastings

35. "The presidency is an independent office and the Irish people whom I appreciate so much and I take with such responsibility have given a very clear mandate on a very clear set of ideas to me, as the ninth president."
Author: Michael D. Higgins

36. "Inevitable is not the same as immediate, Sieh--and love does not mandate forgiveness."
Author: N.K. Jemisin

37. "Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country."
Author: Paul Ryan

38. "We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections."
Author: Ralph G. Neas

39. "The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up."
Author: Rene Cassin

40. "Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?"
Author: Richard M. Daley

41. "Laws continue to be enacted, and the regulatory environment has become more complex due to unacceptable conduct remediation. Consequently, entities continue to be compelled to demonstrate compliance with legal mandates through documented assurance assessments."
Author: Robert E. Davis

42. "Mandates are rarely won on election night. They are earned after Inauguration Day by leaders who spend their political capital wisely, taking advantage of events without overreaching."
Author: Ron Fournier

43. "A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capital as polarized as Washington."
Author: Ron Fournier

44. "The meanings of life aren't inherited. What is inherited is the mandate to make meanings of life by how we live. The endings of life give life's meanings a chance to show. The beginning of the end of our order, our way, is now in view. This isn't punishment, any more than dying is a punishment for being born."
Author: Stephen Jenkinson

45. "In short, this or that behavior wasn't good because scripture said so. Scripture mandated this or that behavior because it was good, and if it was already good before scripture said so, then it was good for some reason inherent to itself, some reason that reason could discover."
Author: Tamim Ansary

46. "Just this week, my husband proposed a plan for schools and libraries to develop their own plans to keep children from finding indecent material on the Internet as an alternative to a Congressional proposal that would require a federally mandated solution."
Author: Tipper Gore

47. "The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace."
Author: Warren Christopher

48. "The divine mandate to use the world justly and charitably, then, defines every person's moral predicament as that of a steward. But this predicament is hopeless and meaningless unless it produces an appropriate discipline: stewardship. And stewardship is hopeless and meaningless unless it involves long-term courage, perseverance, devotion, and skill. This skill is not to be confused with any accomplishment or grace of spirit or of intellect. It has to do with everyday proprieties in the practical use and care of the created things - with "right livelihood."
Author: Wendell Berry

49. "Our MANDATE at Blackhawk is to create mega-millionaires. Period. More wealth for our clients, more power for all of us ...the People."
Author: Ziad K. Abdelnour

50. "We are in an economic war. It is a war between those who createwealth and those who believe they have some sort of divine mandateto appropriate wealth. They don't have such an authoritative command.I don't think they ever did. We have tried their command-andcontrolmethods for nearly a century because they said they knewbetter. It is now obvious that they didn't."
Author: Ziad K. Abdelnour

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