I think the overwhelming likelihood is that in the next Congress, you'll see even smaller majorities than we have now. And we weren't really able to get anything done in the last few years,
Quotes about majorities (16 Quotes)
It's not entirely clear whether these collaborations on Iraq are an attempt to elevate the president's approval ratings, so that he can again try to drive an agenda with his majorities in Congress or whether they're a legitimate second-term effort to be more collaborative.
But Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon said that last week's breakthroughs were less the result of shrewd parliamentary maneuvering than of simple arithmetic GOP majorities in the House and the Senate, combined with a Republican in the White House. Elections matter, ... When you control all three branches of government, you've got a lot to work with to drive your agenda.
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
With huge majorities opposing the president's proposal to sell control of U.S. ports to Dubai and the failure of the president's Iraq policy, Republicans' once-yawning advantage on security issues has been largely neutralized.
One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
Politics is politics. We will expect a spirited campaign. I've had pretty solid majorities in this district.
The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.
The American people love this law. By majorities of 75 or 80 percent, they want to protect species and don't want to consciously drive them to extinction.
You cannot take back congressional majorities if, like the Democrats, you propose solutions that are easily blurred by the majority.
While I don't dispute the fact that we have challenges in the current environment politically, I also believe 2006 as a choice election offers Republicans an opportunity if we make sure the election is framed in a way that will keep our majorities in the House and the Senate.
Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.
I was an evangelic kid who went to schools with Catholic majorities I'm a rocker who lives in a rural zone in South America I'm a nerd, a geek, an otaku. You can't hardly find someone more fit to be on the picture for the word outcast in the dictionary than me. You think you know what is to be prejudged You don't know squad, punk
Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated.
Overwhelming majorities of the American people believe that (screening passengers) is now a law-enforcement function, and law enforcement functions, like the Border Patrol and other functions to ensure security, are federal responsibilities, ... Fox News Sunday.
I wanted to do everything I could to see that we put a Republican president in the White House after the 2000 elections and give him a Republican Congress, and to add to our majorities in the state legislatures, ... And I am proud to say, sir, mission accomplished.