It was very interesting [book Fast Food Nation] because all my friends who were in college, [and] this book became almost mandatory for them to read.
I believe that there is a very strong chance that we will see that young people will be put into mandatory service. And the real concerns is that there are provisions for what I would call re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward and then they have to go to work in some of these politically correct forums.
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!
The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press.
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
. . . this culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more suffering.
The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything.
I will build the wall and I will impose tough mandatory minimum - remember this - tough mandatory minimum prison sentences for deported illegal immigrants who try to reenter the country. They keep coming back and back and back.
On staring out at a gloomy day: First you must realize that it is the day that is gloomy, not you. If you want to be gloomy, too, that's all right, but it's not mandatory.
To become a courageous leader, you must realize that accepting responsibility is not optional - it's mandatory.
On my first day in office, I am going to ask Congress to pass Kate`s Law, named for Kate Steinle to ensure that criminal aliens convicted of illegal reentry receive strong mandatory minimum sentences - strong. And then we get them out.
I am not overstatingthis; the anointing is mandatory if you are called to serve The Lord. Without it there will be no growth, no blessing, no victory in your ministry.
Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.
The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age
Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age.
There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding them is mandatory.
There ain't no party like a Liz Lemon party 'cause a Liz Lemon party is mandatory!
Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.
There is only one reply to a request for a higher birthrate among the intelligent, and that is to ask the government to first take the burden of the insane and feeble-minded from your back. [Mandatory] sterilization for these is the answer.
