#mandate

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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

During the summer of 2009, conservative activists turned up the heat on Democratic politicians to protest the innovation-destroying, liberty-usurping Obamacare mandate. In the summer of 2012, it's squishy Republican politicians who deserve the grassroots flames.


Michelle Malkin


#conservative #democratic #deserve #during #flames

For the past two years, President Obama has promised our children the moon, stars, rainbows, unicorns and universal health care for all. But the White House Santa's cradle-to-grave entitlement mandates are a spectacularly predictable bust.


Michelle Malkin


#care #children #entitlement #health #health care

Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.


Shimon Peres


#born #both #britain #british #circumstances

Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?


Dan Rather


#democrats #going #mandate

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

Our mandate expects that we will build on the Joint Inquiry's investigation and we will not be re-inventing the wheel. But we go to places which the Joint Inquiry was not permitted to explore.


Richard Ben-Veniste


#expects #explore #go #inquiry #investigation

My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless.


Dionne Warwick


#my self #voice #voiceless

Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933.


Ben Bernanke


#crisis #depression #despite #essentially #federal