#mandate

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

#good #lead #leadership #mandate #morality

Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the Quranic injunction, "Let there be no compulsion in religion" (2:256) - is arguably the first mandate for religious tolerance in human history. ↗

— Huston Smith

#christian #compassion #death #discipline #earth

A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly. ↗

— Max Hastings

#decent #fiscal #government #hope #mandate

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. ↗

— Bob Filner

#another #attract #behind #best #child

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

#barack obama #behalf #brutish #building #campaign

It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#basis #bush #chinese #discovered #everybody

Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable. ↗

— Fred Upton

#arbitrary #based #both #bulbs #catchy

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

#fbi #gather #go #information #interviews

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

#believe #bush #clock #decades #gave

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

#comes #commandments #concept #french #french revolution