Mandates Quotes

• Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

  Marquis de Sade

  Nature, Reality, Creation

  Marquis de Sade “Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel”, Library of Alexandria

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• But what I believe is that if a person's individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don't issue mandates to businesses that you've got to do this and you've got to do that.

  Clarence Thomas

  Believe, Rights, Issues

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• Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.

  Marco Rubio

  Independent, Government, Energy

  Marco Rubio's Conservative Political Action Conference speech, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

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• Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country.

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Two, Obamacare

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Each State has its own health insurance mandates, and some of them are good, but there are about 1,800 of them all across the Nation, including provisions for acupuncturists, massage therapists, and hair replacements.

  Timothy Murphy

  Hair, Massage, Replacements

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• You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.

  Steve Jobs

  Creativity, People, Innovation

  "Chairman Jobs? The Guessing Goes On", www.wired.com. July 31, 1997.

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• I talked to a lot of employers who just are, are fearful of what's coming next out of Washington. It's all the spending, it's all the debt. It's their national energy tax, they want to call it cap and trade - more mandates, higher costs, more taxes. Their healthcare bill - more mandates, higher costs, higher taxes.

  John Boehner

  Energy, Cost, Debt

  "Interviews with Leader Boehner & Carol Browner". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 8, 2010.

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• When dealing with illegal immigration, the answer is simple; enforce Constitutional mandates, and you will protect Floridians and the American people.

  Allen West

  Simple, People, Immigration

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• 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.

  Don Tapscott

  Democracy, Age, Digital

  "Don Tapscott: Transforming Capitalism Won’t Happen Without Leadership". www.thestar.com. May 17, 2013.

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• Our mandate is to be a nation of laws. And the Supreme Court is the place where we look to safeguard our civil rights and our individual liberties.

  Frank Lautenberg

  Rights, Law, Liberty

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to discover a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.

  Warren E. Burger

  Taken, Two, Justice

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• We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Pluralism Is, Presidential

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Government, Goal, Environmental

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• Whatever religious people may say about their love of God or the mandates of their religion, when their behavior toward others is violent and destructive, when it causes suffering among their neighbors, you can be sure the religion has been corrupted and reform is desperately needed.

  Charles Kimball

  Religious, People, Suffering

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

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Speak, Behalf, Nations

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• My mandate...is to promote the protection, rights and welfare of children.

  Olara Otunnu

  Children, Rights, Protection

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• Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates. Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service. The very spirit of rebellion is reprehensible.

  Che Guevara

  Military, Ungrateful, Spirit

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• The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual mandate for the government to force American citizens to buy health insurance whether they want to or not.

  Charlie Daniels

  Obamacare, America, Socialist Government

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• There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspiration, Humor, Return

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• The best organizations regard the nurturing of their employees as a spiritual mandate.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Spiritual, Organization, Employee

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• Learning emerges from discovery, not directives; reflection, not rules; possibilities, not prescriptions; diversity, not dogma; creativity and curiosity, not conformity and certainty; and meaning, not mandates.

  Stephanie Pace Marshall

  Creativity, Reflection, Discovery

  Stephanie Pace Marshall (2006). “The Power to Transform: Leadership That Brings Learning and Schooling to Life”, p.38, John Wiley & Sons

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• Jazz shouldn't have any mandates. Jazz is not supposed to be something that's required to sound like jazz. For me, the word 'jazz' means, 'I dare you.'

  Wayne Shorter

  Mean, Sound, Jazz

  "Wayne Shorter On Jazz: 'How Do You Rehearse The Unknown?'". "All Things Considered" with Laura Sullivan, www.npr.org. February 2, 2013.

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• [P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.

  George Will

  Top Down, Tissues, Coercion

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

  Ron Fournier

  Victory, President, Guarantees

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

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Joining In, People, Political

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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