It will be uncomfortable for many politicians used to holding power.
"I feel like many politicians use something like that just to put themselves into the public eye.
He cringes at the term, especially the way many politicians use it, with its baggage about blame and morality.
It would check if they had paid their taxes (a recent report found that 70% of parliamentarians did not file tax returns), whether they had defaulted on loans (many politicians use their influence to get loans written off), and so on.
Most contemporary cinema, theatre and popular entertainment on television and radio, for example, is in, and many politicians use it to bring themselves closer to their audience.
In an era in which voters form impressions of candidates from 30-second sound bites on the evening news, Mr. Pataki is using a tactic many politicians employ: say just enough to sound authoritative, but hold the details.
In past corruption scandals, many Japanese politicians used the names of subordinates or family members to conceal their own ownership.
But as long as many Labour politicians use the types of schools their party condemns, the government's education policy will be vulnerable to charges of hypocrisy.
The mandate's defenders note that many Republican politicians used to support an individual mandate, and that what was once a fringe libertarian critique of mandates has only lately become the conservative party line.
