Mandates Quotes - Page 2

• Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?

  Dan Rather

  Dance, Politics, Democrat

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• The philanthropic tradition is older than democracy, older than Christianity, and older than higher education. It gives form and purpose to personal and social life that cannot be provided by the self-interest of economic enterprise or required by the mandate of political institutions.

  Robert L. Payton

  Self, Giving, Political

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• I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates.

  Chuck Grassley

  Believe, Individual, Consensus

  "Transcript: Sens. Dodd, Grassley on 'FNS'". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. June 14, 2009.

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• Each and every day, more people pay the price of Obamacare's mountain of mandates. As I travel across the country, I continue to hear from Americans who want Washington to take its hands off of their healthcare.

  John Barrasso

  Country, Pay The Price, Hands

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• The rules are all wrong today. The mandate of the media really does pre-date the founding of the United States.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Media, United States, Doe

  "Richard Dreyfuss Holds Media Accountable: Civics Education Leads to Political Civility" by Mike Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2011.

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• Conservatives shouldn't count on the Supreme Court to do our work for us on Obamacare. The Court may rule as it should, and strike down the mandate. But it may not. And even if it does, the future of health care in America - and for that matter, the future of limited government - depends ultimately on the verdict of the American people.

  William Kristol

  Government, Obamacare, America

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• Margaret [Hodge] is obviously entitled to do what she wishes to do. I would ask her to think for a moment, a Tory prime minister resigned, Britain's voted to leave the European Union, there are massive political issues to be addressed, is it really a good idea to start a big debate in the Labour Party when I was elected less than a year ago with a very large mandate not from MPs, I fully concede and understand that, but from the party members as a whole.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Party, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• 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.

  Billy Crudup

  Play, People, Stakes

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• Within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. And believe me, it will be enough.

  Mario Draghi

  Believe, Euro Crisis, Enough

  "ECB boss pledges to save the euro". "AM" with Tony Eastley, www.abc.net.au. July 27, 2012.

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• We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers.

  Bob Filner

  Teacher, Children, Support

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• 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.

  Geoff Davis

  America, Government, Regulation

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• 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.

  John Barrasso

  Believe, Order, President

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• Winning control of the Senate would allow Republicans to pass a whole range of measures now being held up by Reid, often at the behest of the White House. Make it a major reform agenda. The centerpiece might be tax reform, both corporate and individual. It is needed, popular and doable. Then go for the low-hanging fruit enjoying wide bipartisan support, such as the Keystone XL pipeline and natural gas exports, most especially to Eastern Europe. One could then add border security, energy deregulation and health-care reform that repeals the more onerous Obamacare mandates.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Winning, Obamacare, White

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• 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.

  Felicity Huffman

  Views, Issues, Support

  "Don't threaten women's health care" By Felicity Huffman, www.cnn.com. February 29, 2012.

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• Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney can, contrary to conventional wisdom, make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins.

  David Limbaugh

  Running, Winning, Issues

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• I think my track record speaks for myself... I have been endorsed by the African Union, but I am a prosecutor for 121 states parties and this is what I intend to be until the end of my mandate.

  Fatou Bensouda

  Party, Thinking, Track

  "Fatou Bensouda: the woman who could redeem the international criminal court" by Afua Hirsch, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2012.

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• Government...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... The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality.

  Abe Fortas

  Religious, Government, Neutrality

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• We as Christians have a mandate to be nonconformists.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Christianity

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.30, Beacon Press

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• The fact is that many countries that call themselves free succumbed to medical dictatorship...people are sicker and less healthy...A country which mandates vaccination is not a free country...It is a country of zombies who do what they are told by vested interests who intimidate them and use them to make money.

  Viera Scheibner

  Country, Vaccines, People

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• The liberation of Kuwait has begun. In conjunction with the forces of our coalition partners, the United States has moved under the code name Operation Desert Storm to enforce the mandates of the United Nations Security Council.

  George H. W. Bush

  Names, Kuwait, Storm

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• It is my view that what is important is cutting government spending, however spending is financed. A so-called deficit is a disguised and hidden form of taxation. The real burden on the public is what government spends (and mandates others to spend). As I have said repeatedly, I would rather have government spend one trillion dollars with a deficit of a half a trillion than have government spend two trillion dollars with no deficit.

  Milton Friedman

  Real, Cutting, Government

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• We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandate of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.

  Carl Levin

  Mean, Wmds In Iraq, Mass Destruction

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• He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do. He lies and cheats; he snubs the mandate and authority of international weapons inspectors; and he games the system to keep buying time against enforcement of the just and legitimate demands of the United Nations, the Security Council, the United States and our allies. Those are simply the facts.

  Henry Waxman

  Lying, Past, Iraq

  "Letters to the Editor". thetimes-tribune.com. May 23, 2010.

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• It is the duty of any president, in the final analysis, to defend this nation and dispel the security threat. Saddam Hussein has brought military action upon himself by refusing for 12 years to comply with the mandates of the United Nations. The brave and capable men and women of our armed forces and those who are with us will quickly, I know, remove him once and for all as a threat to his neighbors, to the world, and to his own people, and I support their doing so.

  John F. Kerry

  Military, Men, Years

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• The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do.

  Michael D. Higgins

  Heart, Years, Creating

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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