Presidential Mandate Quotes

It will already be unbelievably hard to pass Medicare for All once with a massive outside pressure campaign by an organized grassroots movement and a presidential mandate in the first 100 days of an administration.

The President cannot be disturbed. [The reporter quickly replied, "Well when he wakes up, just tell him he isn't President.

That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

Control is not a luxury that most Presidents are allowed.

[Donald] Trump has more of a mandate than any president since Ronald Reagan.

There are limits on what a president can achieve or do, but the expectations are so great.

Presidential powers are not exercised by a body or group. The Constitution vests 'all executive power' in one and only one person - the president.

If I'm elected president, let me tell you about my first day in office. The first thing I intend to do is to rescind every illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by Barack Obama.

A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capital as polarized as Washington.

Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public.

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.

Another harsh reality of the modern presidency is one we forget when thinking about new presidents. Without exception, they betray their followers—and must do so to stay in office and govern.

Obama was quite serious when he said he was going to change the world. And now he has a national crisis, a personal mandate, a pliant Congress, a desperate public - and, at his disposal, the greatest pot of money in galactic history.

[Donald Trump] has a huge mandate and they're still in denial and do not even know it yet.

A man who understands the power of the Presidency, who understands the potential of the Presidency, can get almost anything accomplished.

In my tenure I had three one-on-one meetings in the Oval Office with the President, and I can assure you that you remember every word of those meetings. Abd if the President indicates what he would like or prefer, you do not take that as optional.

Protection really takes on the personality of the President.

Never underestimate the power of an American President in his early days.

The President cannot, with success, constantly appeal to the country. After a time he will get no response.

A President cannot always be popular.

France now has a new president and he must be respected. I assume full responsibility for this defeat.

If we have a president who asked for a mandate on combating gun violence, as Hillary Clinton is requesting, that's going to be really impactful. I will certainly defer to her when it comes to the exact pace and content of legislative action, but I expect it will be at the top of her agenda. It will certainly be at the top of mine.

Never has any one office had so much power as the President of the United States possesses. Never has so powerful a leader been so impotent to do what he wants to do, what he is pledged to do and what he knows he must do.

A president in his first year has a mandate and some political capital. When he picks an issue, he can practically roll any Congress.

Trump has never been clear and consistent about what he will do as president.