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Mandates are not objective realities but subjective interpretations of elections sold successfully by the winning candidate or party. -- Thomas E. Mann
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
Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates. -- Marquis de Sade
Many businesses oppose any government mandates, even if they are already following them. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
Health care providers, saving lives daily in our emergency rooms, live with federal mandates. -- Barbara Ann Radnofsky
If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project. -- Jesse Ventura
I think the governors would all agree that what we don't want from the federal government is unfunded mandates. -- James Douglas
Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent. -- Marco Rubio
When dealing with illegal immigration, the answer is simple; enforce Constitutional mandates, and you will protect Floridians and the American people. -- Allen West
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
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
Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers. -- Charles Koch
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
The Obama Administration's obsession with forcing mandates on the American people has now reached a new low by violating the conscience rights and religious liberties of our people. -- Marco Rubio
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
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
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
For the past two years, President Obama has promised our children the moon, stars, rainbows, unicorns and universal health care for all. But the White House Santa's cradle-to-grave entitlement mandates are a spectacularly predictable bust. -- Michelle Malkin
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
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
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
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
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
When a company is not being guided by the products they make and what the customers need, but by how they can manipulate the system - get regulations on their competitors, or mandates on using their products, or eliminating foreign competition - it just lowers the overall standard of living and hurts the disadvantaged the most. -- 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
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
Healthcare should be about market driven solutions, not government mandates. -- Joni Ernst
I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates. -- Chuck Grassley
[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions. -- George Will
Taxpayers don't need any more big government mandates that have proven to be disastrous. -- Mike Rogers
On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice. -- Andy Hargreaves
We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good. -- Douglas B. Reeves
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
The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any. -- Warren E. Burger
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
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
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
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
Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates... Instead, they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service, should learn to think and act as a mass. -- Ernesto Che Guevara
A hidden gem of knowledge awaits.." "in the trees of wisdom where He mandates." "the right to read the tomes of our people...""to find your answers on defeating the evil." -- Candace Knoebel
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

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