Mandatory Quotations

I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn't free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community.

We can't reform mandatory spending in this area until we first deal with ours. I tell my colleagues, 'Let's get the moral high ground and demonstrate that we want to make changes to our pension, and then we can deal with the big problems.'

We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.

It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.

Social Security is an insurance policy. It's a terrible investment vehicle. Social Security has some great benefits. But it was never meant to be a savings plan. So we need to have a national debate. Should this 12.5 percent that we're contributing all go into a Social Security pool, or should half go into a mandatory savings plan?

After you win all these belts, you cannot fight all these mandatory guys.

One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions.

Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.

Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people.

The curious thing is Americans don't mind individual mandates when they come in the form of payroll taxes to buy mandatory public insurance. In fact, that's the system we call Social Security and Medicare, and both are so popular politicians dare not touch them.

Music deserves to be the mandatory second language of all schools in the world.

New Yorkers should know that no one in the Administration, at the Department of Defense, or at the Selective Service System is advocating the reinstatement of the mandatory draft in any form.

Mandatory caps would be detrimental to manufacturers by driving up the cost of doing business." ()

Mandatory dues. Not only that, they were coming in there telling me you need to do this, you need to do that.

Mandatory evacuations have been ordered for New Orleans and Galveston. I urge the citizens to listen carefully to the instructions provided by state and the local authorities. And follow them,

Mandatory hunter education is really having an impact.

Mandatory is in the back of our mind, we don't want to do it but we'll do everything we can to save our system. We'll have to make a decision whether we want green grass or water in our homes if we don't get some rain soon, I'm afraid that's what it boils down to.

Mandatory reporting is something we need to get started on as soon as possible. You can't make targets if you don't have anything to measure.

Mandatory reporting simply means more scrutiny in all of the practices around reducing infection. Sterilization is considered a sentinel event around surgical site infections. So for a facility to be able to document and prove that they did all of those things the right way via an electronic record keeping system is a tremendous value for a facility.

Mandatory seat belt laws save lives. Mark is very well respected and well known for his skills as a driver and with his help we'll work with the legislator to get a primary seat belt law passed next year.

Ridicule first, then shame and condescension are the weapons and ammunition - in the mental manipulation and psychological terrorism of the oppressed. Self-esteem, truth and fellowship among peers are their able defenses - in a counter-attack on the lies: of fear, inferiority and a mandatory deference - intended by the oppressors.

There are mandatory evacuations in the Galveston area, and most of the operating companies near Texas City are preparing to shut down completely by this Friday. They believe, at best, they will be shut down for three days, maybe as long as a week.

Most people say the easy oil has been found. So these techniques are not only attractive, they're absolutely mandatory to keep the oil flowing.

Many sentences are excessively long because mandatory sentencing policies do not allow sentencing judges the discretion to distinguish between hardened criminals and those amenable to rehabilitation and preparation for successful re-entry.

I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo.

For two months, young people and working people have expressed their worries and rejection of the First Job Contract that makes a period of poverty a mandatory phase for an entire generation.

I don't think we'll get to the protocol without mandatory caps.

If a customer is successful in getting through it will currently be another three weeks before they will be able to have their mandatory interview at a jobcentre, before their claim can be considered for processing,

I don't believe it should simply be you're expelled for a year, period, ... Safety issues, whether it's guns or anything else, we deal with all the time. A student in America has a right for an education. Expulsion is used very infrequently. Guns and weapons (incidents) are about the only mandatory expulsions we have.

Today I feel better about Rita, and I'm not as prone to do a hard, mandatory evacuation, ... But I want to leave that open as an option.

Having said that, when a mandatory evacuation order is issued, have your plan ready, and be ready to execute it flawlessly,

We may also need to remove one of the Iranian arguments that the suspension called for is 'voluntary'. We could do both by making the voluntary suspension a mandatory requirement to the Security Council, in a Resolution we would aim to adopt (in) ... early May.

I am having discussions regarding the mandatory use of visors in our league with the stakeholders in our league, which includes the team owners, league personnel, the players' association and the National Hockey League. Unfortunately, it takes an incident like that to refocus attention on the issue.

Under Michigan law, unless something was intentionally misrepresented or defective, there's no mandatory right for a consumer to make a return. But if a store posts a return policy, they must follow the terms of the policy.

I went to an inner-city school in Buffalo. We had no money. But our teachers believed in hands-on active learning - there was a mandatory science fair, which was critical.

Our mandatory training continues and is in addition to the discreet use of security advisors and armored cars when circumstances warrant.

Jeff satisfied his mandatory against top-rated contender Robin Reid in August so he wouldn't be stripped and the fight would be a true world title unification fight, ... Reid was no warm-up fight.

I think the message to go out today is mandatory requirements are imminent unless we get some rain, real rain in the next few days,

Research shows mandatory minimums don't serve as a deterrent and actually have the opposite effect,

Our country needs to cope with supply disruptions on the international market and we need to prioritise product supply (over crude), ... So we decided to cut mandatory commercial stock levels.

I think if they can get eight (ACC) wins, they've got a great chance. I think it's mandatory to win one of the next two. And obviously a win over Duke would be absolutely an eye-catcher.

It is our expectation that market forces are going to drive this to a mandatory program.

I think the leadership conference will be the first major cattle show before the 2008 election, and it should be pretty much mandatory attendance for any candidate seeking election in 2008.

I think it's horrible because so many people are going to miss those first two days of class. For some courses it's mandatory to go to the first day, like labs and things. This is terrible planning.

Three inches of rainfall would cause us to have flooding and we would lose ground. You can expect there to be a mandatory evacuation anytime we encounter a large rainfall.

We have thousands of people who want to voluntarily evacuate at this time, ... Once they are all out, then we'll concentrate our forces on mandatory evacuation.

Those names are being notified to the U.N. to make that part of the mandatory freeze list, to allow our counterparts around the world to freeze those assets and repatriate them,

Most important to those that wonder whether this is real, the appropriated accounts of our government will go up only one half a percent each year, and they will be implemented by enforceable, mandatory caps,

That will be part of the debate. It's exactly part of the debate when mandatory workers' comp came in years and years ago.

We are not recommending mandatory testing in any group of people under any circumstance. We're simply treating an HIV test like any other medical test that would be part of good quality medical care.

We haven't done this in 10 years, so the members aren't used to dealing with these mandatory programs,

We have nothing against mandatory health education. We think it's a valid topic that should be part of the curriculum. But this is a Trojan horse to bring a very radical sexual curriculum into the schools.

You also have to think outside the box. There's no manual for a technical rescue like this. If you wait and become reactive, you lose. Plain and simple. It's mandatory you think several steps ahead for a technical rescue.

Without a mandatory registration system, the companies would still have it in their interest to not publish certain trials.

We'll cooperate, but I want to make it plain that we're not going to alter our policy in relation to mandatory detention.

We have some good opportunities on mandatory boater education. I think that is a very important thing. And I do believe we will be able to get funding for DGIF.

We wanted to institute a mandatory spay and neutering program; however, there was a law in Sacramento pushed by advocates at some time in the past that said you cannot pass breed-specific laws, ... So we had to ask for a change in state legislation.

What we couldn't accept was the new mandatory spending under this bill, which would open the federal purse to developers, ... Reforming the law should not be a euphemism for gutting the law, and that's exactly what the bill would do.

There is little evidence that mandatory emissions caps actually work. For example, since signing the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, which mandates the reduction of carbon emissions, both Canada and Greece have seen a nearly 25 percent increase in emissions. According to the European Environment Agency, 13 EU nations that signed onto the Kyoto Protocol are on track to miss their 2010 emissions targets.

We still have real concerns about mandatory minimum sentences.

We're not talking about mandatory marathons or about Cal Ripken-style workouts,

While no Australian citizen will respond positively to the extensive damage to the immigration detention centers ... it is now time to consider a more effective management approach than mandatory detention,

We run rain or shine, they just make the rain tires mandatory on a day like today.

There has been a very strong interest in China and a mandatory requirement for a lot of purchasing agents to do everything possible to make sure they are not leaving any money on the table.

We're not opposed to being generator-ready. We're opposed to the mandatory installation of generators.

Untie the hands of state and federal judges and prosecutors, ... Give them options other than turning the courts into assembly lines that mass produce mandatory life-without-parole sentences for children.

Very emphatically, I never, ever in my 18 years of coaching have forced a young man or demanded or made it mandatory for a young man to attend church, ... I appreciate the ACLU, but to not listen to my bosses and to file a complaint, maybe its mission is to be controversial. Obviously I know the difference between making it mandatory and personal convictions and what the First Amendment says.

Conservation payments are discretionary spending that Congress can either appropriate or not or spend it for anything they want to. We have to be very careful to protect mandatory spending.

Countries like Iran and China support an Internet Iron Curtain that would censor political dissidents and deny anonymous activity online through mandatory registrations of IP addresses.

What I would do is use intensive supervision, mandatory treatment and periodic polygraph testing to see if they are in fact complying with the terms of their release - and in the really high-risk cases, I would use the GPS monitoring.

At the end of the day, conservatives are not going to walk away from the first chance since 1997 to pass mandatory savings,

Today, we simply don't have a system to catch the illegal use of genetically engineered ingredients. We don't even have a system that requires mandatory safety tests, Mr. Chairman, to make sure that genetically engineered products, when they are used properly, are safe.

The state would have to prove that Vermont is the most corrupt state in the country because they are trying to justify the lowest contribution limits and the only state with mandatory expenditure limits. That is just a ridiculous smear.

The store will be closed when they do mandatory evacuations, but no, I'm not (evacuating). Of course, I'm a little further away than it's predicted to make landfall,

This seems to me like a series of prepared legal maneuvers intended to forestall any mandatory action or legal judgment on either side of the Atlantic.

We must also look for ways to reduce mandatory spending which comprises more than two-thirds of the federal budget.

We have made significant increases in providing shelters, hot lines and restraining orders to protect battered spouses and mandatory arrest for domestic violence incidents, ... And the largest beneficiaries have been men. The biggest drop is in women killing husbands.

They allow schools to fit to kids instead of kids fitting to schools. Mandatory school assignment proves to have detrimental consequences to students.

It was all over the news and there was a mandatory evacuation on Sunday. I left on Saturday with a small duffel bag of clothes. Compared to so many people there I am in the best condition.

The public deserves these mandatory minimum sentences and they deserve safe streets.

No speakers and no mandatory attendance. And there's nice folks here, except for me.

While I do have an affection for Jill Kelly, I wouldn't call it an obsession. Obsession is the sort of word one immediately associates with statements like, 'Your Honor, my client promises to keep the court-ordered mandatory distance away from...'

The more people do now to conserve water, that will help us put off mandatory restrictions as long as possible.

As owners of this franchise, we're very much in favor of some sort of mandatory facial protection at the AHL level.

A lot of these folks have been casketed for a long time, so we've only got bones to deal with, ... Evidently, it's not mandatory to place identification inside the casket, which was news to me. That's not helping.

Ending mandatory retirement would allow workers to retire based on lifestyle, circumstance and priorities.

Thomson Delmar Learning provided us with the content we needed to expand our reach to other job functions within the hospital while we offer them the platform to provide the content. Through this acquisition, both organizations will join together to provide content in one format to various healthcare professionals who need mandatory training or clinical education.

We are spending too much money. Our discretionary spending - taking out Iraq and mandatory spending - grew 49 percent in four years. Our debt has grown. Pork is always dispiriting. But pork being spent at a time of war is particularly dispiriting.

This was a mandatory fight. And this has to be mandated to do over again, because we've got to get a winner out of a mandatory fight.

Your input would be part of any planning process looking at this property. There would be at least one mandatory public hearing that would have to take place to address any concerns raised by you or your client.

In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was extended to a mandatory embargo in 1977. And that was followed by economic sanctions and other measures - sometimes officials, countries, cities, towns - some organized by popular movements.

I hope we play well. I guess it's not mandatory that we do, but it would be nice.

Indian Wells was missing 10 of the top 15 players. And Miami (which is a mandatory tournament) missed some players.

I made my come back in bodybuilding two years ago, I make a lot of mistakes. I didn't work enough on the posing routine for the first Olympia. The mandatory poses, so when I walked out I ended coming in twelfth place because, I kind of like let my ego effect me.

I'm lost for words. I never thought it was that bad. It ought to be mandatory for every American to see it.

I'm really strong and am hitting hard, he was my mandatory challenger and look what I've done to him. I don't think he was really up for the job. He took quite a beating in there.

The biggest thing with the NCAA Tournament is to try to get across to your guys that there's a lot of drama and a lot of changing of routines. Any road game, we've never come in a day and a half early. We have to go to a mandatory shoot-around, we have to go to press conferences. When we go on the road to Alabama, no one cares we're in town. This is an event. For some guys, that can add pressure.

Once the voluntary evacuation has taken place, we will concentrate our resources and our forces on the mandatory evacuation.

Once they all are out, then we'll concentrate our forces on mandatory evacuation.

Designing and implementing a mandatory system (will) be very difficult both politically and economically. We can start somewhere and this conference is our starting point.