Mandatory Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (M) Quotes

I`ve always supported a certain amount of gun control. I think California has always had a mandatory waiting period, so we were never concerned about it like the rest of the country. Some states didn`t have any at all. So I`ve always supported that. I think it`s very important that guns don`t get in the wrong hands, and, yes, I would support most of that. I don`t know too much about trigger locks. I`ve never really discussed that with anyone. But I do feel that guns - it`s very important to keep them out of the hands of felons or anyone who might be crazy with it.

- Clint Eastwood

(Explaining why he supports a mandatory military draft) "We, the people, should participate in the privileges we have in this democracy that we live in, and we should all share in the dangers and the risks with our lives to protect the freedoms that we have. I don`t see how our young men can feel they`re part of the country if they don`t participate in the defense of the country - in the defense of our values - when it`s necessary to do so. I feel, strongly, that by excluding themselves, they sacrifice something integral. They separate themselves from the hero`s journey - this journey we all must take to find ourselves."

- Harvey Keitel

I don`t mistrust sentiment and emotion, no. The question becomes, `Are you giving them something to make them a little happier, or are you putting in something that is inherently true to the material?` Are people behaving the way we all really behave, or are they behaving the way we would like them to behave? I mean, the world is not as it`s presented in Frank Capra films. People love those films - which are beautifully made - but I wouldn`t describe them as a true picture of life. The questions are always, is it true? Is it interesting? To worry about those mandatory scenes that some people think make a picture is often just pandering to some conception of an audience. Some films try to outguess an audience. They try to ingratiate themselves, and it`s not something you really have to do. Certainly audiences have flocked to see films that are not essentially true, but I don`t think this prevents them from responding to the truth.

- Stanley Kubrick

(on An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)) I think Louis Gossett Jr.`s performance was wonderful, but he had to do what he was given in the story. The film clearly wants to ingratiate itself with the audience. So many films do that. You show the drill instructor really has a heart of gold - the mandatory scene where he sits in his office, eyes swimming with pride about the boys and so forth. I suppose he actually is proud, but there`s a danger of falling into what amounts to so much sentimental bullshit.

- Stanley Kubrick

The biggest flaw in being self-taught is there are gaps. You self-teach yourself something and you think you know something fairly well, but then there are gaps a university teacher would have taught you as part of a mandatory program. I would probably have been better off if I`d got a better general education, but I was just so bored.

- Woody Allen

There was no evidence that Mr. Schaffer or anybody in Tyson Foods knew of or anticipated anything about zero tolerance or mandatory safe handling labels at the time of the inaugural dinner,

- James Robertson

While I do have an affection for Jill Kelly, I wouldn`t call it an obsession. Obsession is the sort of word one immediately associates with statements like, `Your Honor, my client promises to keep the court-ordered mandatory distance away from...`

- Jill Kelly

It was mandatory in college that we had to wear a suit. I think it`s kind of funny ? now we get the opportunity to make millions and millions of dollars and we`re required to wear suits. Well, we were required to wear them in college when we made nothing.

- Dikembe Mutombo

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

The great thing about show business is that there`s no mandatory retirement age.

- Scott Bakula

It`s mandatory evacuation, but it`s mandatory without the force, ... If they make it mandatory mandatory, we`ll be back by.

- Michael Bradley

If customers are able to reduce their water use, then Lake Decatur may not drop to a more critical level. If the lake level falls another foot, the city will have to implement mandatory water conservation measures, which have not been done since the drought of 1988.

- Keith Alexander

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

Reconciliation is a special budget procedure to change entitlement and tax laws. It cannot be filibustered and requires only a simple majority in the Senate to be passed. It is primarily intended for deficit and mandatory spending reduction.

- Jeff Miller

These are mandatory repairs,

- Michael Martin

I`m really strong and am hitting hard, he was my mandatory challenger and look what I`ve done to him. I don`t think he was really up for the job. He took quite a beating in there.

- Michael Hunter

It was all over the news and there was a mandatory evacuation on Sunday. I left on Saturday with a small duffel bag of clothes. Compared to so many people there I am in the best condition.

- Tom Hayes

The appropriations bill would provide a little over a quarter of the funding that was promised. Our bigger concern is that the program is not mandatory and it does not guarantee annual appropriations, as CARA would have.

- Jodi Applegate

We heeded the mandatory evacuation on Sunday,

- Jennifer Hill

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

Getting to the top is optional, but getting down is mandatory. A lot of people get focused on the summit and forget that.

- Ed Viesturs

Our mandatory training continues and is in addition to the discreet use of security advisors and armored cars when circumstances warrant.

- Jim Walton

Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!

- Alexander Henry

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.

- Alice Hyde

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.

- Andre Artero

It`s become the new standard. If you want to get on that podium, it`s mandatory.

- Andy Mendelsohn

(Dingle) was a leader in the effort to protect service members from the avoidable health risks posed by the Pentagon`s mandatory use ... Connecticut and the nation have lost a talented pilot and a dedicated patriot.

- Anthony Byett

These things can be helpful when people are there voluntarily. But if they`re mandatory, they may consider it punitive something to get through and just put in the time.

- Ayako Nishimura

These things can be helpful when people are there voluntarily. But if they`re mandatory, they may consider it punitive '” something to get through '” and just put in the time.

- Ayako Nishimura

The emphasis in this is to help Japan turn its economy around and pull up its socks, ... To do that, significant deregulation is mandatory.

- Ayinde Ubaka

We give them some flexibility, but we don`t let them go into the mandatory services, ... I`m hoping that as we make the transition, it frees this agency`s resources up to really pressure plans to be more efficient.

- Ba Jin