#mandate

Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#andrew #claim #claimed #congress #constitutional

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

#after #capital #day #earned #election

In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school. ↗

— Gaylord Nelson

#environmental #first #giving #grade #hard

He(Prophet Muhammad) laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone. ↗

— Rev. B. Margoliouth

#everyone #fact #freedom #guidance #islam

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

#call #cap #coming #costs #debt

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

— Warren Christopher

#mandate #palestinian #peace #point #really

I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#bipartisan #consensus #i #i believe #i believe that

We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them. ↗

— Carl Levin

#belief #building #common #common belief #delivering

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

To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us. ↗

— Fatos Nano

#long #long time #mandate #people #rebuild