Majority & Minority Quotes (1858 Quotes)

The government's status quo will rest on the faith of the majority of the people and not merely the opinion of a group of people.

We've really made an effort to look at the historical aspects of the region and put together a plan that the majority of citizens will be pleased with.

The result is that many non-Muslim minorities are leaving Iraq, an exodus that may mean the end of the presence in Iraq of ancient Christian and other communities that have lived on those same lands for 2,000 years.

Recreational interests of our members was not sufficient to give us a claim to be able to contest the permit. However, one of the three state environment commissioners disagreed with the majority and indeed felt that Sierra Club should have standing. So, we think we have a pretty strong case to argue that because of the recreational interests of our members in Sam Rayburn.

It's like I told our team. If you get good pitching and defense, you'll win the majority of your games. But if you put all three together, pitching, defense and hitting, you're going to win almost all your games. That's what we did today.

Unfortunately there have been terrible abuses and it's wrong. I do want you to know that it does not represent the desires or wishes or feelings of the majority of the citizens of my country.

This is the only suite that delivers on the majority of what a client needs to run a large hospitality or gaming operation, letting them focus on their business, not their IT.

The administration remains confident that a majority of members of Congress continue to recognize the importance of protecting Americans through lawful intelligence activities directed at terrorists.

For a country to enter the EU, there has to be full respect of minority rights, freedom of thought and expression. If you drag your feet and make cosmetic changes ... then this won't do. To believe that, you would need to be a child.

These songs still get played so much on the radio, young kids make up the majority of our audiences,

There'll be some guys who fight it, that's inevitable. But I really believe the majority of our guys are looking forward to this. A player who'll get a coach who works them hard, when they start to see that the guy will make them better, they'll do it. That is almost universal.

I'd love to hear that he's going to work with us, so that when he becomes president he's using his pen to sign legislation passed by a Democratic majority, rather than vetoing legislation passed by a Republican majority,

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).

A vast majority is equity that is already vested in the company. It's not a result of this merger at all -- 90 percent of the options that are granted to the executives would vest with our without the deal.

This was the first time Republicans had full control since the '50s we wanted to show we could work together as a governing majority. Coming this far without a veto, that's a sign of the party's cohesion and the president's strength.

In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the rule. The majority of people were white, and the white majority had little or no respect for any rights which the black minority had relative to property, or even to their own lives. The majority - the mob and occasionally the lynch mob - ruled.

We don't view ourselves as a settlement. We view ourselves as a continuation of the Jewish dream, but the Jewish dream has an Arab minority.

We decided to offer odds again this year because that's what the majority of our customers wanted . . . but in the spirit of fairness, we could no longer accept any wagers on this particular show.

Under the process of ongoing globalization, advantages are, in the main, created for a minority of countries and development centres as well as powerful transnational companies.

In a weird way, it's good and bad being an insurance policy. Do I like to do it No, because I know I can play every day. At the same time, if I'm going to play every day somewhere on the field a majority of the time, that's fine.

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.

There was clearly a majority in the Senate that would have supported the bill, but not the two-thirds that you need.

That's where the majority of the growth is, so it's no surprise.

After meeting with Louisiana officials last week, Rev. Jesse Jackson said, quote, 'Many black people feel that their race, their property conditions and their voting patterns have been a factor in the response.' He continued, quote, 'I'm not saying that myself.' Then I'll say it. If the majority of the hardest hit victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans were white people, they would not have gone for days without food and water, forcing many to steal for mere survival. Their bodies would not have been left to float in putrid water. They would have been rescued and relocated a hell of a lot faster than this. Period. I mean, reporters and crews are getting to stranded people, and government and military agencies can't Why don't the networks run FEMA When I saw pictures of black people taking things from stores, my first thought was 'How are those Nikes necessary for your survival' And then it hit me People need shoes and clothing. Some escaped the floods with just the clothing on their backs. We have American citizens, not 'refugees' from an underdeveloped country, waiting for food, water, shelter, and electricity for four, five, six days.

It diminishes the whole process to call it a leftist takeover much less a feminine takeover what's happening today is a takeover of the democratic majority.

If the fools do not control the world, it isn't because they are not in the majority

In essence it said, 'Dear Mr. President, I find myself at variance with a majority of your foreign policies and even your domestic policies and therefore I respectfully submit my resignation.

Banning gay marches is something you do for political effect when you're trying to build a constituency on the right. They are learning from the U.S., from the Moral Majority. But I think it's dangerous and unhelpful if you say homosexuality is an illness that can be treated - then we're back in Britain in the 1950s.

We need to do work on this policy. In short, offensive comments about homosexuals were commonplace and a majority believed that they were tolerated to some extent within the military.

If you look at the outcome of what happened, you have an existing conference that is 80 percent minority.

By launching bitter, partisan attacks that ignore problems in his own backyard, Sen. Reid is emblematic of a minority party that is long on anger and short on substance.

The minority is always right.

Due to the extensive damage caused by Hurricane Katrina, we felt it necessary to extend the timeframe for local governments to submit their requests for public assistance. As the deadline approaches, we feel confident we have addressed the majority of these issues.

With the organization of the committee today and an impending review of the allegations made against the majority leader, I felt now was the appropriate time to make that decision public.

She shows the worst qualities of masochists. She is boastful, she tramples upon the rights of others ... and because the majority of Filipinos are women, she is abusing the rights of women.

A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration.

Most people would say, 'they're a bunch of drunk drivers, screw them. That's exactly why we have constitutional rights -- because the majority does want to go after people.

In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security he was very often in the minority.

A man with God is always in the majority.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

The General Assembly did what the majority of the people in this stated wanted and that was to pass an education lottery,

State government represents the majority of the dollars rolling through, but of the 600 customers on the network today, about 58 percent are optional, ... The political subdivisions, whether they are small or large, get the same deal as the big agencies, and that's real attractive to those folks.

We lease the majority of our centers prior to breaking ground.

It's hard to get a clear-cut favorite, ... It's hard to tier this league this year. I think the majority of the teams are going to be better.

... Newton was an unquestioning believer in an all-wise creator of the universe, and in his own inability like the boy on the seashore to fathom the entire ocean in all its depths. He therefore believed that there were not only many things in heaven beyond his philosophy, but plenty on earth as well, and he made it his business to understand for himself what the majority of intelligent men of his time accepted without dispute (to them it was as natural as common sense) the traditional account of the creation.

There are over 1,500 tickets sold to the performance, filling the majority of the main floor and grand tier. There are still some good seats available.

The Game Commission has underestimated the determination of the Pennsylvania deer hunter. For the majority of us, this is not simply a hobby. It is a major part of our lives. Some of the PGC commissioners comment that only 8 percent of hunters in Pennsylv

It's an excellent, excellent move for this area, ... What's really exciting is we know from our database the majority go back into their communities.

Among major TV sports, college basketball is unusual. Despite a regular season that stretches over three months and features at least one nationally telecast game almost every single day, a majority of the ad revenue is generated during the short post-season. By contrast, college and pro football, see most of their national TV ad money during the regular season.

The two months that I'm in Spring Training is tough. The family obligation weighed heavily. We spent a lot of time talking about that. The truth of the matter is during spring, I'm at the ballpark the majority of days for 12, 15 hours. I wouldn't get a whole lot of time with them.