Top 35 Mandates Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Mandates Quotes from famous people such as Robert Zubrin, Cass Sunstein, Clyde Drexler, John Boehner, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

When the government mandates that everyone must buy a p

When the government mandates that everyone must buy a product, its sellers can, and will, increase its price, potentially without limit.
Robert Zubrin
When it imposes expensive regulatory mandates on the private sector, Congress often acts on the basis of interest-group pressures, anecdotes, and the emotions of the moment. The executive branch is hardly perfect, but it is far less likely to do that.
Cass Sunstein
As commissioner, you have to have a great relationship with your players but also to the upper executives: you gotta make sure their mandates are all on target and in line.
Clyde Drexler
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
Conflicting legislation and regulations, overlapping mandates, unwillingness to enforce land use, elite capture, entrenched attitudes, and lack of incentives to influence behavior are rife in many resource-rich countries.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Even a healthy economy and labor market would have struggled under the additional expenses enacted and proposed in 2009 and 2010 – from healthcare mandates and higher taxes, to carbon cap-and-trade and delay in extending the last decade’s tax reforms.
Elaine Chao
Far from trying to rig the system, I have spent decades opposing cronyism and all political favors, including mandates, subsidies and protective tariffs – even when we benefit from them.
Charles Koch
It’s widely recognized that employers and employees need more assistance addressing problems with rising health care costs. Attempts to address the problem are going to require a federal response, not a patchwork of state and local mandates.
Eugene Scalia
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
Russia was the last to leave the 19th century and the most rapid to enter the mandates of the 20th century. It was not an evolution. It was not a slow process.
Amor Towles
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
When you are making mandates on individuals to do things like wear masks and you’re making mandates on individual business owners to put guidelines in place… they need a little bit of lead time to build up and get that done.
Tate Reeves
In San Francisco, I am proud to say that one of my first mandates as district attorney was that my staff would never ask the court to impose money bail. If we believe someone is too dangerous to be released, then it doesn’t matter how wealthy they are – we should ask the court to detain them.
Chesa Boudin
The success of monetary policy should be judged by the economy’s performance against our statutory mandates of price stability and maximum employment.
Jerome Powell
Taxpayers don’t need any more big government mandates that have proven to be disastrous.
Mike Rogers
When dealing with illegal immigration, the answer is simple; enforce Constitutional mandates, and you will protect Floridians and the American people.
Allen West
Everything we do these days – our lust for ever more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusal to engage with the mandates of reality, our fidelity to cults of technology and limitless growth, our narcissistic national exceptionalism – all of this propels us toward the realm where souls abandon all hope.
James Howard Kunstler
Importantly, while PBS is subject to some of the Commission’s Kid Vid rules, its business model is designed around community programming, and its efforts will continue with or without Commission mandates.
Michael O’Rielly
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
Mandates are not objective realities but subjective interpretations of elections sold successfully by the winning candidate or party.
Thomas E. Mann
If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.
Jesse Ventura
Americans need health care focused on them, not Washington. They want choices, not more mandates. They want affordable plans with ready access to local doctors and hospitals – not high-priced plans with doctors they don’t know.
Kevin Brady
I believe that providing options – not mandates – is the best way to reduce costs and improve the quality of our health care.
Matt Rosendale
I challenge the leaders of public education to stop issuing mandates from the state office and to focus on empowering schools and delivering resources to the school level.
David Ige
President-elect Trump and I know it won’t be Washington, D.C., that unlocks our nation’s potential, nor a bigger bureaucracy, tougher mandates, or a federal agency. The answer is local control and listening to parents, students, and teachers.
Betsy DeVos
Subsidies and mandates are just two of the privileges that government can bestow on politically connected friends. Others include grants, loans, tax credits, favorable regulations, bailouts, loan guarantees, targeted tax breaks and no-bid contracts.
Charles Koch
I hope we never get to the point that we put ourselves in Jesus’ place. But when I read the New Testament basically, we get three mandates: to love God, to love each other, and to take care of the least among us. And I think this is at least a step in the right direction.
Bob Riley
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.
Ron Fournier
The curious thing is Americans don’t mind individual mandates when they come in the form of payroll taxes to buy mandatory public insurance. In fact, that’s the system we call Social Security and Medicare, and both are so popular politicians dare not touch them.
Robert Reich
The expenses of complying with Washington’s torrent of mandates and regulatory overreach are costing American workers jobs and income growth.
Elaine Chao
For too long, unfunded federal mandates have drained the budgets of states and communities. The strength and vitality of our communities must be restored.
Bernie Sanders
Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-

Let’s stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.
Marco Rubio
Many businesses oppose any government mandates, even if they are already following them.
Madeleine M. Kunin
Looking at U.N. staff and budgetary rules and regulations, one might think some of them were designed to prevent, rather than enable, the effective delivery of our mandates. It benefits no one if it takes nine months to deploy a staff member to the field.
Antonio Guterres
Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It’s really just a matter of priorities.
Jared Polis