Top 125 Mandate Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Mandate Quotes from famous people such as Michele Bachmann, Rand Paul, Stewart Butterfield, Roshni Nadar, Max Hastings, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional

I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn’t praise it.
Michele Bachmann
Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
Rand Paul
Inside a company, you can mandate that everyone use the same technology, which means you can go a little bit, I don’t know, higher fidelity than the lowest common denominator technology.
Stewart Butterfield
As a first-generation inheritor, the first mandate is to preserve our family wealth and hopefully increase it.
Roshni Nadar
A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.
Max Hastings
The mandate given to me was one of change.
Benigno Aquino III
Whatever films I make, the mandate is that it should touch the audiences and engage them from the first scene.
Farhan Akhtar
Our superpower is our fierce commitment to creating a positive place to work and play. Our employees have the tools and the mandate to chase big game changing ideas.
David Baszucki
The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.
Lakhdar Brahimi
Our mandate expects that we will build on the Joint Inquiry’s investigation and we will not be re-inventing the wheel. But we go to places which the Joint Inquiry was not permitted to explore.
Richard Ben-Veniste
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.
Ben Bernanke
Trust in our economic system and the genius and hard work of our citizens beyond the mandate and control of government.
Rick Tumlinson
President Obama and Democrats won a mandate to move us forward with jobs, healthcare reform, equality, and nation building here at home.
Christine Pelosi
When you run on something definitive and then win by a significant margin, you have a mandate.
Ken Cuccinelli
The opposition’s role is meaningful when voters elect an opposition with an elected mandate to speak for Singaporeans.
Pritam Singh
Part of my mandate is to curb corruption and streamline a cumbersome, graft-ridden bureaucracy, to put resources where they will provide the clearest results, and to untangle a complicated regulatory environment.
Benigno Aquino III
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.’
Marco Rubio
My priority is my economy minister mandate and to create momentum.
Emmanuel Macron
I’m not a dictator. Dictators are people who take power and don’t know when they’re leaving. I know my mandate ends on Feb. 7, 2022.
Jovenel Moise
Punishing individual immigrants who are deeply embedded in American communities is not the mandate Trump was given when he was elected.
Luis Gutierrez
Our mandate at Nerdist is that we only get involved with nice people around things that we love. We have the luxury of being in the demographic that we’re programming for.
Chris Hardwick
It seems to me that before we give federal funds to police departments, we ought to mandate that they have body cams.
Claire McCaskill
That was not part of the U.N. resolution; it was not part of the mandate to go on to Baghdad and, frankly, if we had gone into Baghdad and pushed Saddam Hussein off, we would have inherited an even bigger mess than the mess we inherited with the refugee problem.
Les Aspin
When healthcare is at its best, hospitals are four-star hotels, and nurses, personal butlers at the ready – at least, that’s how many hospitals seem to interpret a government mandate.
Alexandra Robbins
It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.
Marya Mannes
I’d formed a research and development company under the banner of Paramount Pictures back in about 1975, and its mandate was to explore advanced forms of entertainment, not just movies.
Douglas Trumbull
You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
I feel like my mandate when I was elected was to go reduce the size of government, lower taxes, and increase freedom, and freedom isn’t free, and sometimes you have to make a small sacrifice to move forward with what you’re after.
Blake Farenthold
My position is that it isn’t government’s job to mandate patriotism. To me, mandating a pledge of allegiance to a government is something Saddam Hussein would do.
Jesse Ventura
Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.
Shimon Peres
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
We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-

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
I am disgusted by Biden’s brazen decision to ignore the law, embrace authoritarianism, and show a total disregard for our freedoms with his proposed vaccine mandate.
Ronny Jackson
American film isn’t just film and glamor and fame and the lives of people who are fortunate financially. Those aren’t the only stories in this vast nation. That’s my mandate.
Debra Granik
I felt a mandate to go on TV.
Paula White
I really get a smile that people think they have a right to even suggest how I give my money away. I have no mandate to give a dime to anybody.
Peter B. Lewis
The mandate for the CTO’s office is to unleash the power of technology, data, and innovation on behalf of the nation. The CTO’s office is really trying to bring best practices, possibilities, pilots, and policy advising.
Megan Smith
While giving a clear majority to my government in 2014, the people of the country had also given a clear mandate to take strict action against corruption and black money.
Ram Nath Kovind
You see, in government, people give you a mandate, and you’ve got to fulfil that. Ours is very clear. Fix our public finances and get our country working.
Enda Kenny
It is well settled in our Constitutional scheme that all Parliamentary Acts and mandates bind the executive. Any executive act, which violates any express or implied mandate of the Parliament, is unconstitutional and void.
Prashant Bhushan
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
In most countries, a lopsided election represents a mandate that the winning party could then use to implement their agenda, but the U.S. political system seems to have been made to prevent such an occurrence.
Fabrizio Moreira
Nationalism and anti-nationalism is a matter of perception. You cannot mandate who is a nationalist and what is not.
Kapil Sibal
As an OB-GYN physician, I understand the importance of protecting Americans from sexually transmitted diseases, and I applaud the development of an HPV vaccine. But for states to mandate vaccination for young women is both unprecedented and unacceptable.
Phil Gingrey
CEOs who boldly lean into fulfilling the dual mandate of earning profits and providing societal benefits will find a receptive public.
Richard Edelman
We find ourselves in a difficult situation in Europe. There’s a crisis, weak growth, unemployment… my duty is to ensure that by the end of my mandate France is in a better state than it was at the beginning.
Francois Hollande
The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.
Ilan Stavans
My mandate to myself since I’ve been involved in these movies was ‘make every single movie different, so there’s never ‘X-Men’ fatigue.’
Lauren Shuler Donner
Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.
Randall Terry
When the federal government imposes a mandate on the states or supersedes a state policy, conservatives often rise in protest.
Tom Perez
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!’
Artur Davis
During the summer of 2009, conservative activists turned up the heat on Democratic politicians to protest the innovation-destroying, liberty-usurping Obamacare mandate. In the summer of 2012, it’s squishy Republican politicians who deserve the grassroots flames.
Michelle Malkin
If technology and communications can adapt to people’s modern lifestyles, then why can’t our labor laws follow suit? Private-sector businesses continue to live under an outdated federal mandate that says the only way to compensate for overtime is through cash wages.
Renee Ellmers
I have a mandate to win and that’s what I want to do.
Masai Ujiri
London chose to come out in record numbers, the highest turnout there’s ever been in a mayoral election, and – I say this not with arrogance; it is what others have said – the single biggest mandate a British politician has ever received. That shows what a wonderful city we are.
Sadiq Khan
I believe in taxation and health care that is outside the usual libertarian mandate, because I don’t want people to have to suffer. It’s as simple as that.
Neil Peart