(145 quotes found)
“Health coverage for regular citizens isn't mandated by the Constitution, but we're obligated to provide adequate medical care for prisoners, whatever the cost.”
Jim Riley
“The 56,000,000-plus citizens who voted against you and your agenda have given me a mandate to move forward with my agenda,”
Cindy Sheehan
“Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?”
Dan Rather
“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.”
Warren E. Burger
“We have a complete specification, that meets the [IEEE] mandate.”
Bill Bunch
“We have a mandate ... to protect ... the treaties, to ensure that they're there and that we don't give up any of our rights from the treaties,”
Bill Evans
“We worked closely with state officials and our retailers to smoothly transition to ethanol ahead of the mandate.”
Albert Chee
“The federal bill is a combination of cuts and what we believe are unfunded mandates, and it's the unfunded mandates that may generate the biggest cuts to the states.”
Bruce Fuller
“If you'll read the statute, it says there is one certification mandated by 5 p.m. seven days after the election, and that's the only one. The only reason there's a second one for overseas absentee ballots is because the federal Congress has stepped in, as they have the right to do, and has said that the states must allow that. But only to that extent.”
Barry Richard
“The Department of Transportation is committed to a fair and inclusive process as we implement a new Congressional mandate to charge commuter railroads access fees along the Northeast Corridor. As part of that process, we are reaching out to the affected railroads and states for input as we evaluate every aspect of passenger rail operations, including capital investments and ownership of tracks, to determine how best to proceed.”
Brian Turmail
