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Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back. -- Rand Paul
As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states - no more, no less. -- Noam Chomsky
Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money. -- Bobby Scott
Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code! -- Harold H. Greene
It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we'd pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it. -- Al Yankovic
There is only one reply to a request for a higher birthrate among the intelligent, and that is to ask the government to first take the burden of the insane and feeble-minded from your back. [Mandatory] sterilization for these is the answer. -- Margaret Sanger
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. -- Chili Davis
It should be mandatory that you understand computer science. -- will.i.am
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. -- W. Edwards Deming
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To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich. -- Muhammad Ali
The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything. -- Bill Lee
We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years. -- Steven Tyler
One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie. -- David Oyelowo
So now is an opportunity for us to stand up and have a good, strong immigration policy to make sure that E- Verify becomes mandatory and we have got to train and properly equip our Border Patrol. -- Allen West
I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn't free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community. -- Robert M. Gates
The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory. -- Jeff Cooper
Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime. -- Bobby Scott
With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job. -- Jennifer Granholm
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
In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was extended to a mandatory embargo in 1977. And that was followed by economic sanctions and other measures - sometimes officials, countries, cities, towns - some organized by popular movements. -- Noam Chomsky
Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people. -- Rand Paul
We can't reform mandatory spending in this area until we first deal with ours. I tell my colleagues, 'Let's get the moral high ground and demonstrate that we want to make changes to our pension, and then we can deal with the big problems.' -- Timothy Griffin
In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could. -- Eva Longoria
I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate - treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while, it wouldn't be sustainable for me, and that's what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life. -- Alanis Morissette
Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time. -- Bill Viola
There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas. -- Michelle Bachelet
We don't need mandatory, non-sectarian prayers read over the loudspeaker to 'put God back in schools.' God never left the schools. God is still at work through the hundreds of thousands of gifted teachers and administrators, committed parents, and passionate volunteers who seek to help give our children 'a future with hope.' -- Adam Hamilton
We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids. -- Dale Archer
Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first. -- Dale Archer
Reciprocity is not mandatory. -- David Lubar
Struggling is mandatory. Suffering is optional. -- Robyn Carr
Forgiveness is mandatory; reconciliation is optional. -- Lysa TerKeurst
Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional. -- Carroll Bryant
This dress code should be mandatory for most events. -- Johnny Depp
Growing older is mandatory, but growing up is optional. -- Heather Brewer
I think abortion should be mandatory for about 30 years, -- Dan Savage
No mandatory prison term for employers who hire illegals. -- Mitt Romney
Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory. -- Ed Viesturs
...this culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more suffering. -- Tullian Tchividjian
Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production. -- Philippe Starck
Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age. -- Julia Cameron
The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age. -- Scott Bakula
The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age -- Scott Bakula
After you win all these belts, you cannot fight all these mandatory guys. -- Lennox Lewis
I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo. -- Megan Smith
Do I have to talk to insane people?""You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory. -- Jasper Fforde
If chocolate were a mandatory part of breakfast, people wouldn't be so grouchy in the morning. -- Joanne Fluke
Forgiveness isn't simply an option or a good idea; it is mandatory for our restorative process. -- Grace Gealey
There ain't no party like a Liz Lemon party 'cause a Liz Lemon party is mandatory! -- LIZ
In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test. -- Christopher Hitchens
Shut up, be happy. Obey all orders without question. The happiness you have demanded is now mandatory. -- Jello Biafra
To become a courageous leader, you must realize that accepting responsibility is not optional - it's mandatory. -- David Cottrell
I always work on my abs, every single day. As Miss Universe, exercising your abdominal muscles is mandatory! -- Gabriela Isler
As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art. -- Marshall McLuhan
All the answers i seek lie within me, but inner quietude is mandatory before those become loud and clear. -- Pooja Ruprell
One way to reduce crime and save lives is to target criminals who use guns with tough mandatory minimums. -- Donald Trump
There are definite advantages to single beds." He sat up abruptly and arranged her legs around his waist. "Makes cuddling mandatory. -- Cindy Gerard
California became the last state in the west to regulate groundwater usage. The state`s first-ever mandatory water restrictions soon followed. -- Chris Hayes
The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press. -- Lewis H. Lapham
Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom. -- Elisabeth Elliot
Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination. -- Tim Ferriss
The main goal in any criminal statute is to produce what's best for the victim. And sometimes, a mandatory minimum doesn't accomplish that. -- Paul Martin
We think it's reasonable to provide mandatory, instant criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere for anyone. -- Wayne LaPierre
I was just in Las Vegas, where prostitution is legal. Which is a relief because I live in Los Angeles, where it is mandatory. -- Greg Fitzsimmons
One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions. -- Robert Shea
It was very interesting [book Fast Food Nation] because all my friends who were in college, [and] this book became almost mandatory for them to read. -- Wilmer Valderrama
Simply put, international terrorism made international cooperation mandatory rather than elective. Collective security has become the only real security against the hydra-headed monster of international terror. -- John Ashcroft
Countries like Iran and China support an Internet Iron Curtain that would censor political dissidents and deny anonymous activity online through mandatory registrations of IP addresses. -- Marsha Blackburn
I volunteered to deploy to Iraq. I was one of the few soldiers who were not on the mandatory deployment roster - close to 3,000 Hawaii soldiers were. -- Tulsi Gabbard
Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory. -- Felix Dennis
Whenever you're starting a new show, you have these awkward first lunches and meetings that are sort of mandatory, and everybody shows up, but nobody knows each other. -- Lizzy Caplan
I know that all over America there's probably politicians sending out pictures of themselves signing that mandatory helmet bill, but it's bullshit. I say that as a parent. -- Dave Barry
I think forgiveness is absolutely mandatory. When you don't forgive the only person you are hurting is yourself because you are still harboring the anger and the mental anguish. -- John Assaraf
Congress would make it mandatory, absolutely require, that, every five years, people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner -- Betsy McCaughey
Why should it be mandatory for people to give interviews. I request state governments to remove the process of interviews for minor jobs to end corruption in getting jobs. -- Narendra Modi
By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale. -- Lewis Mumford
A review of the science suggests that uncertainty is so high as to raise a good prospect that mandatory green house gas reductions will produce little or no environmental benefit. -- Kenneth P. Green
I am not overstatingthis; the anointing is mandatory if you are called to serve The Lord. Without it there will be no growth, no blessing, no victory in your ministry. -- Benny Hinn
I went to an inner-city school in Buffalo. We had no money. But our teachers believed in hands-on active learning - there was a mandatory science fair, which was critical. -- Megan Smith
War is a matter of vital importance to the state; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied. -- Sun Tzu
All we need is good will, and we have to start working in a way that considers each other's interests [with U.S]. In my view, this is a mandatory condition. -- Vladimir Putin
They don't worship at the altar of forced busing and mandatory quotas. They don't believe you can remedy past discrimination by mandating new discrimination. (Defending his nominees for Civil Rights Commission) -- Ronald Reagan
New Yorkers should know that no one in the Administration, at the Department of Defense, or at the Selective Service System is advocating the reinstatement of the mandatory draft in any form. -- Jim Walsh
It's mandatory in this day and age to be considered to have a sense of humor and to demonstrate it. You're not paying me for a joke, You're paying me for the right joke. -- Robert Orben
A system of world order-preferably a system of world government -is mandatory... The proud nations someday will see the light and, for the common good and their own survival, yield up their precious sovereignty... -- Walter Cronkite
On staring out at a gloomy day: First you must realize that it is the day that is gloomy, not you. If you want to be gloomy, too, that's all right, but it's not mandatory. -- Nora Gallagher

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