You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.

- Azim Premji

Part of my mandate is to curb corruption and streamline a cumbersome, graft-ridden bureaucracy, to put resources where they will provide the clearest results, and to untangle a complicated regulatory environment.

- Benigno Aquino III

The mandate given to me was one of change.

- Benigno Aquino III

It seems to me that before we give federal funds to police departments, we ought to mandate that they have body cams.

- Claire McCaskill

Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?

- Dan Rather

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

- Dionne Warwick

It is not for the people to give laws to the prince, but to obey his mandate.

- Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor

We're not gonna misread our mandate.

- Mitch McConnell