Mandate Quotes

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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

I was really bright as a kid and tested well, and it was clear that I was going to get scholarships to any schools I wanted. My dad always said I could be an engineer; at that time it was the elite of society: steady job, working in science, which was then the answer to every problem we had. It was kind of a mandate. Kind of a dream he had for me.

- James Woods

The government, whoever it is going to be, doesn`t have a clear mandate. They will have to be doing compromises in policies to minority parties and you have in the minority parties some rather extreme views.

- Paul Young

I think you have to keep your distance from mainstream Hollywood in order to be a normal human being. I mean, I work there, and I like being there, but I love having an anonymous life. I think there`s definitely such a thing as being too famous. The reason why I stayed in Canada had everything to do with the kind of films we used to make before the commercial mandate came in effect at Telefilm. They were films that asserted an independent vision of the world. They weren`t just cheap versions of American genre films...but movies that spoke to the human condition. Now, I`m beginning to wonder why I stayed and if it was a huge mistake. (On herself and other Canadian actors & filmmakers, such as director-actor-writer Don McKellar, who stayed in Canada rather than go Hollywood and make movies in the U.S.) If Canadian films don`t have a purpose, then what are we still doing here? We`re beginning to freak out a little. Why make a commitment with so little reward? The Canadian films out there have been so weak, it`s been kind of depressing".

- Sarah Polley

I don`t understand the mandate of being together forever. The idea that you should do that is wrong. It makes us slaves to a societal mandate. You can still love, but it doesn`t mean you have to be tethered to the flesh (His reference on marriage). (9.14.97: Toronto Sun newspaper: Interviewed by Liz Braun)

- Wesley Snipes

We began this race way back in late March, and no one had thought we`d be the focus of the national media or be the so-called first test of the Republican Party and the Bush mandate. Well, ladies and gentlemen, we passed that test.

- Jean Schmidt

We began this race way back in late March, and no one had thought we`d be the focus of the national media or be the so-called first test of the Republican Party and the Bush mandate. Well, ladies and gentleman, we passed that test.

- Jean Schmidt

(N orfolk, VA.--It`s hard to tell exactly when the Norfolk Public Schools hit rock bottom, but 1998 was particularly dismal across the board: Just 38 percent of third graders passed the state`s Standards of Learning, or SOL, test in English; 26 percent of eighth graders were proficient in mathematics; and a mere 18 percent of high schoolers passed Virginia and U.S. history. For John Simpson, who took over as superintendent that same year with a mandate to boost achievement for all of the district`s 37,000 students, the only solution was to completely shake things up.) When I arrived, people were unhappy, but many of them had the attitude that given a fairly poor and high-minority population, that might be all that they could do, ... There was no room for excuses anymore.

- John Simpson

The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It`s a mandate for peace.

- Warren Christopher

A wholly unrealistic mandate to compete against itself with an aging fleet, aging workforce and and ailing infrastructure make a public accounting of the Coastal Ferry Act a necessity.

- Jackie Miller

(In passing the Real ID Act, Congress did not intend to create a series of hard-to-comply-with rules but to encourage minimum standards for states to verify the identities of drivers license holders, said U.S. Representative Tom Davis, a Virginia Republican.) We weren`t trying to carve out artificially high standards, ... This is not an unfunded mandate (to states).

- Tom Davis

Mandate has very grave doubts as to whether the social partnership process, with its current restrictive agenda and parameters can truly address the income needs of those on middle and lower incomes, given the very narrow focus on competitiveness and wage restraint being applied to the talks by both the government and employers in terms of wages in particular.

- John Douglas

It`s not a mandate. If you can make it work where you have operations, whether that`s in North America or Western Europe or South America, that`s not an issue. The issue is, if you have a target, you may want to look at low-cost-countries as an option.

- Thomas Hill

This convention is actually about trade clearly exceeds the mandate of UNESCO, ... deeply flawed and fundamentally incompatible with (the agency`s) obligation to promote the free flow of ideas by word and image.

- Richard Martin

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.

- Al Weed

The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.

- Alan Walters

I stood for election, and in that election, I sought a mandate to found a new political party based on social democratic philosophy.

- Alison Marquiss

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.

- Allison Barber

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.

- Alma van Drunick

It is not government`s job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children`s health.

- Amanda Sluss

Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.

- Amy Newman

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.

- Andra Turner

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.

- Andrew Lebow

If the tobacco officials had really changed, ... they would not have waited until Minnesota secured a court order to mandate the documents` release, and if tobacco officials had really changed, they would not perpetuate their cover-up by continuing to block our efforts to uncover 39,000 documents containing their deepest, darkest secrets.

- Angelos Anastasiou

It`s well intentioned, but we think it`s misguided. If the state has additional funds available that would be used to offset this tax credit, then it ought to be used to fulfill its constitutional mandate to fund schools adequately.

- Anthony Mosa

We discussed...in broad strokes, the aid that`s already going to help the Afghan people, ... the need to put together a broader coalition, probably under the mandate of the United Nations, but with our strong support of follow-on after this undertaking to take out Mr. bin Laden and his associates happens.

- Arthur Gordon

The moral mandate to achieve success exerts pressure to succeed by fair means, if possible, and by foul means, if necessary.

- Baba Ramdev

The $50 million was not totally critical, but very important to keeping African Union support for the peace process alive. A strong mission and mandate depends a lot on support from the United States.

- Bagir Manan

Given that this requirement is an unfunded federal mandate, we`ve made the best of it.

- Bailey Pryor

They (the AU) need a stronger mandate with enough resources to implement it, ... Their Achilles` heel is in the area of logistical and communications requirements.

- Baltasar Garzon