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  • 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.) -- Diablo Cody
  • At 15 I set my heart on learning; At 30 I firmly took my stand; At 40 I had no delusions; At 50 I knew the Mandate of Heaven; At 60 my ear was attuned; At 70 I followed my heart's desire without overstepping the boundaries of right. -- Confucius
  • Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena? -- Dan Rather
  • My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless. -- Dionne Warwick
  • You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so. -- Jean-Marie Le Pen
  • Within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. Believe me, it will be enough. -- Mario Draghi
  • If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system. -- Robert Duncan
  • 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
  • Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004 election was an overwhelming win. -- Lincoln Chafee
  • 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
  • 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
  • Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933. -- Ben Bernanke
  • In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews, to do the investigative work. -- Robert Mueller
  • 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
  • Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate. Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with. -- Adam McKay
  • 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
  • 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
  • There's a Biblical mandate to reach out to those who are the orphans, the widows in their distress, to take care of the stranger in your land. But that does not mean citizenship. -- James Lankford
  • For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith. -- Pope Benedict XVI
  • Plan B is really a little garage band of three people, and our mandate has been to help get difficult material, that might not otherwise get made, to the screen and to work with directors we respect. -- Brad Pitt
  • A heck of a lot more accountability comes from individuals or the church doing it than the government, that signs off on helping people at 5 o'clock, because it comes from the heart, not from a badge or a mandate. -- Doug LaMalfa
  • Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public. -- Ron Fournier
  • This mandate that I seek is about continuity and sustainability against disruption and stagnation, about moving forward versus regressing. We have to safeguard what we have already achieved. We cannot put at risk what we have; we cannot gamble away our future. -- Najib Razak
  • Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda. -- Ron Fournier
  • 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
  • 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
  • I ran on the platform of moderation and won the election by a large margin. By virtue of the strong mandate that I received from the electorate, I am committed to operating in the framework of moderation, which calls inter alia for a balance between realism and the pursuit of the ideals of the Islamic Republic of Iran. -- Hassan Rouhani
  • If you made me the national commissioner of football, I'd tell you one thing that I would mandate. The second Saturday in September, we're going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team. Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10. -- Lou Holtz
  • We as Christians have a mandate to be nonconformists. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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  • Obama had a mandate for change and Trump clearly does not. -- Ezra G. Levin
  • My mandate...is to promote the protection, rights and welfare of children... -- Olara Otunnu
  • Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate. -- Rand Paul
  • The mandate is clear, God's nature must be reflected on the earth. -- Sunday Adelaja
  • There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values. -- Ronald Reagan
  • The mandate is clear, God's nature must be reflected on the earth -- Sunday Adelaja
  • The best organizations regard the nurturing of their employees as a spiritual mandate. -- Nancy Pearcey
  • [Donald] Trump has more of a mandate than any president since Ronald Reagan. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • [Donald] Trump has more of a mandate than any president since Ronald Reagan. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit. -- Goldwin Smith
  • Inevitable is not the same as immediate, Sieh--and love does not mandate forgiveness. -- N. K. Jemisin
  • Entrepreneur, your message, mindset and mandate is connected to your brand, business and brain. -- Onyi Anyado
  • You are created with a mandate! You have all you need to fulfill it. -- Jaachynma N.E. Agu
  • You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best. -- Steve Jobs
  • The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace. -- Warren Christopher
  • I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn't praise it. -- Michele Bachmann
  • Our mandate is simple: raise up a generation that can openly display the raw power of God -- Bill Johnson
  • The principle of giving should become a mandate for action for the Christians of the last days -- Sunday Adelaja
  • It is not for the people to give laws to the prince, but to obey his mandate. -- Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
  • Too often, we see people who are prevented from practicing their religion because of a government mandate. -- Carly Fiorina
  • A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly. -- Max Hastings
  • [Donald Trump] has a huge mandate and they're still in denial and do not even know it yet. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • [Donald Trump] has a huge mandate and they're still in denial and do not even know it yet. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that. -- Barbara Kingsolver
  • You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying. -- Azim Premji
  • The skeptical relativist attempt to mandate a naked public square is undemocratic. It is also a danger to democracy. -- Henry Hyde
  • Christians have the spiritual mandate to establish the Kingdom of God in their own lives and in their society. -- Sunday Adelaja
  • It's a mandate for you to do in office what you said you would do on the campaign trail. -- Karl Rove
  • The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented. -- Dixie Lee Ray
  • The rules are all wrong today. The mandate of the media really does pre-date the founding of the United States. -- Richard Dreyfuss
  • Those who live by the Qur'an have a scriptural mandate to kill Christians and Jews... it teaches that very clearly. -- John Hagee
  • I also recognise that the mandate was given by hundreds of thousands of ordinary people joining in the political process. -- Jeremy Corbyn
  • We must never minimize the suffering of another. Scripture's mandate to us is, "Weep with them that weep." (Romans 12:15, KJV) -- Billy Graham
  • A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capital as polarized as Washington. -- Ron Fournier
  • We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny. -- James K. Polk
  • Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time. -- Jack London
  • We don't require luck," said Will, "we have a heavenly mandate, after all. With God on your side, what does luck matter? -- Cassandra Clare
  • Our MANDATE at Blackhawk is to create mega-millionaires. Period. More wealth for our clients, more power for all of us ...the People. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Every new rule, mandate, and regulatory edict is one more obstacle that small business owners, entrepreneurs, and job creators have to swallow. -- Marsha Blackburn
  • President Obama and Democrats won a mandate to move us forward with jobs, healthcare reform, equality, and nation building here at home. -- Christine Pelosi
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  • The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is committed to policies that promote maximum employment and price stability, consistent with our mandate from Congress. -- Janet Yellen
  • Kingdom Authority is the God-given mandate of Christians to exercise control over the world in the name of Jesus and under His oversight. -- Adrian Rogers
  • The Health and Human Services preventive services mandate forces businesses to provide the morning-after and the week-after pills in our health insurance plans. -- David Green
  • We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections. -- Ralph Neas
  • Keeping demons from this world is your mandate, a mandate from heaven. And a mandate from heaven isn't something you can just ignore. -- Cassandra Clare
  • 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. -- Janet Yellen
  • It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved. -- Irwin Edman
  • When any civil government steps outside the mandate authorized by God Almighty, then that government does not have any further claim over its citizens. -- Pat Robertson
  • An organisation can only carry out its mandate if there is discipline, and where there is no discipline there can be no real progress -- Nelson Mandela
  • If I'm president, we're not going to have people dying on the streets. I don't call it a mandate, I just say it's common sense. -- Donald Trump
  • The Obamacare contraception mandate was never about freedom. It was always about pitting secularism against religion, and using the power of government to sponsor secularism. -- Ben Shapiro
  • I think that peacekeeping can do quite a lot, if they are given the right mandate with the commensurate resources to get the job done. -- Kofi Annan
  • Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him. -- Ron Fournier
  • Dedication to goodness-dedication in response to an inner moral mandate rather than external restraint-was both the antidote to the pain and the source of great happiness. -- Sylvia Boorstein
  • It's really difficult to have a challenging male-driven show, and certain networks take off because they have their own mandate about what they want to do. -- Scott Speedman
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • It would help the poor people who need jobs. Minimum wage is a mandate. We're against mandates so why should we have it? It would be very beneficial. -- Ron Paul
  • 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
  • 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
  • You should live fully and with enthusiasm, the commands of your faith, but it is not the role of the public servant to mandate that for everybody else. -- Tim Kaine
  • 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
  • Our motto is to work for peace based on social justice. Our mandate is to improve the condition, health and safety of workers, and our mission is universal. -- David A. Morse
  • Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills. -- Sylvia Earle
  • Kellyanne's [Conway] pointing out, you people say we don't have a mandate? You don't have a [Democratic] party. You've lost a thousand legislative seats. You only have five states. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • Kellyanne's [Conway] pointing out, you people say we don't have a mandate? You don't have a [Democratic] party. You've lost a thousand legislative seats. You only have five states. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • 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
  • For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, "The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan, And none but he!" -- Robert Burns
  • Why is there no mandate? You [Democrats] have lost 60 congressional seats since President [Barack] Obama got there. You lost more than a dozen Senators, a dozen Governors. 1,000 state legislative seats. -- Kellyanne Conway
  • 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 do not feel that I have a mandate from the entire world of football - the fans, the players, the clubs, the people who live, breathe and love football. -- Sepp Blatter
  • 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
  • Rand Paul and Chris Christie both said vaccinations should be a choice, not a government mandate. Because when have Republicans ever told people what they could do with their own bodies? -- Bill Maher
  • Obama's ability to use his personality to push folks, whether on Capitol Hill or in Europe, means that he has to stay popular. What happens if he loses that popular mandate? -- Chuck Todd
  • And then of course, obviously as far as issues such as global warming, something has to be done on the corporate side, there has to be some mandate or some legislation. -- Daryl Hannah
  • Well the first thing I want to say is mandate, my ass... We've been convinced that 26% of the registered voters is actually a mandate. We're all actors in this I suppose. -- Gil Scott-Heron
  • 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
  • [The Democrats] are sitting there thinking they really won. They won the popular vote. "We're only talking about this election Kellyanne [Conway]. You don't have a mandate, you don't have a mandate." -- Rush Limbaugh
  • Unlike the phone system, the Internet has no Ma Bell or FCC to mandate new policies for the entire system. Not even Microsoft can make us all upgrade our routers. I think. -- Paul Boutin
  • We have made major reforms in Greece. When I took over after a landslide victory we had a mandate for change and I knew my major focus would be re-organizing the state. -- George Papandreou
  • The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill: from the Nile to the Euphrates. -- David Ben-Gurion
  • The new-school hip-hop generation exists with a mandate to 'keep it real'; this has to do with embracing a hard-nosed truth about the world and letting the chips fall where they may. -- Todd Boyd
  • [The Democrats] are sitting there thinking they really won. They won the popular vote. "We're only talking about this election Kellyanne [Conway]. You don't have a mandate, you don't have a mandate." -- Rush Limbaugh
  • What the Idaho Health Freedom Act says is that the citizens of our state won't be subject to another federal mandate or turn over another part of their life to government control. -- Butch Otter
  • Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. -- Michael Palin
  • It's no secret that the Democrats and liberal media would love to take away our guns and mandate every aspect of our lives, but I refuse to let them get away with that. -- Paul Broun
  • 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
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