A Quote by Benigno Aquino III

The mandate given to me was one of change.

Benigno Aquino III

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Change Given Mandate Me

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Benigno Aquino III
Filipino - Politician
Born: February 8, 1960

From the point of view of legislation of the Constitution, my mandate has been given by my constituency. So it's only my constituency that can revoke my mandate. So until the next election, nobody is supposed to do anything.

Ilya Ponomarev

Democrats misinterpreted the mandate for change in 2008 as an ideological mandate to move the country sharply to the left. They rammed through policies like ObamaCare and Dodd-Frank with little, if any, bipartisan support.

Thom Tillis

Keeping demons from this world is your mandate, a mandate from heaven. And a mandate from heaven isn't something you can just ignore.

Cassandra Clare

It was the old psychosomatic side-step. Everyone in my family dances it at every opportunity. You've given me a splitting headache! You've given me indigestion! You've given me crotch rot! You've given me auditory hallucinations! You've given me a heart attack! You've given me cancer!

Erica Jong

You can’t mandate [cultural change], can’t engineer it. What you can do is create the conditions for transformation. You can provide incentives. You can define the marketplace realities and goals. But then you have to trust. In fact, in the end, management doesn’t change culture. Management invites the workforce itself to change the culture.

Lou Gerstner

The health care law's individual mandate forces nearly all individuals to buy health insurance or pay a penalty. The mandate cannot be severed from the rest of the law because it is the primary mechanism through which the law's changes are supported. Without the mandate, the law collapses.

Tim Griffin

In a democracy, nothing is more sacred than the mandate given by the people.

Ram Nath Kovind

Some people have a mandate that you can't change.

Jeffrey Tambor

The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.

Lakhdar Brahimi

The states ought to be the ones making the decisions about the individual mandate, the employer mandate, all of the different requirements of what kind of insurance people have to have.

John Barrasso

[The Democrats] are sitting there thinking they really won. They won the popular vote. "We're only talking about this election Kellyanne [Conway]. You don't have a mandate, you don't have a mandate."

Rush Limbaugh

I also recognise that the mandate was given by hundreds of thousands of ordinary people joining in the political process.

Jeremy Corbyn

Punishing individual immigrants who are deeply embedded in American communities is not the mandate Trump was given when he was elected.

Luis Gutierrez

The presidency is an independent office and the Irish people whom I appreciate so much and I take with such responsibility have given a very clear mandate on a very clear set of ideas to me, as the ninth president.

Michael D. Higgins

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.