#mantle

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

Had the United States not acted in Iraq, Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi would likely not have declared his weapons programs, submitted to international inspections and voluntarily dismantled its programs. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#declared #dismantled #had #his #inspections

There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled. ↗

— Spike Lee

#affirmative #affirmative action #arrived #black #black and white

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#house #master #never #tools #will

I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#find #hard #i #mantle #many

The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not a safe haven that returns in Afghanistan. ↗

— Michael Mullen

#al-qaeda #defeat #dismantle #disrupt #haven

This is what happened to me when I received the governorship. The corrupt previous governor didn't do the handover. We received the Miranda governorship completely dismantled. ↗

— Henrique Capriles Radonski

#corrupt #dismantled #governor #happened #i

The administration is manufacturing a crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security. ↗

— Jack Reed

#crisis #dismantle #does #exist #manufacturing

Here's what I've learned about raising boys... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board. ↗

— Kenny Rogers

#board #bored #busy #dismantle #fine