Majority & Minority Quotes (1858 Quotes)

... it has become obvious the new commissioner shares the ideologies of the six-member majority.

the Republicans control the Congress. The Republicans have an obligation, their responsibility in that position of controlling the majority to bring out and produce a budget. They haven't done it. They are woefully late.

They've had impressive results. The majority of the horses are back racing. Nobody is really sure how it's working. But it's understandably intriguing.

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

Until now, we haven't asked anyone to form the government. We are carrying on contacts with all factions, and of course we will ask the party that won the majority to form the government.

The separatist activities didn't win people's hearts. The result of the election has shown that the majority of public opinion in Taiwan is for peace and for developing relations with China.

I think those who think Friday night football will work are in the minority right now.

If the Republican Party does not learn to understand unmarried women as the political force and potent block that they have become, we risk becoming the minority party over the next couple of cycles.

It's a funny thing. (W)hen the Democrats are in the majority, the Democrats run Congress. When the Republicans are in the majority, the Democrats still run Congress. How does that work

These are not true fans because they bring this club down . . . you have to be ashamed of them, ... I believe it is only a small minority, but it is a minority which everyone connected with Rangers, including the majority of our supporters, are not happy to accommodate.

The tick up in the unemployment rate largely had to do with the fact that we had construction workers who basically had to file because of the rain and the stormy weather. When we have inclement weather like that, construction workers are not likely to work on the site. The majority that filed came from that industry.

Minority means we have to be constructive, and we have to be working together and finding common ground.

There's not even a guarantee that they're going to get to take it, and when they go to court, the results might not be back yet. I think the majority of them who are taking the tests, are taking them because they're tired. They want to walk out of there with a GED.

The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.

I guess the President says the majority of the people didn't elect him, he doesn't have to listen to 'em anyway.

Gas prices are the classic pocketbook issue for the average person and the average family, and these are things that they notice very much. It helps explain the paradox we see in the polls The economy is very good, but right now a majority of people say it isn't. The hurricane, and its aftermath, will only exacerbate this problem.

Whether you are from Minnesota, Wisconsin or any other Northern tier state, you are not going to like the reimbursement formula. The problem we face is that we wouldn't have that formula if a majority of the states didn't like it, and they have the majority of the votes.

That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.

There is no need for a Germany-styled coalition because we have the majority to govern.

With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

It's inexcusable, ... We're going to march ourselves right into the minority and we have no one to blame but ourselves.

On Sept. 14, Merkel ruled out the prospect of a joint government with the SPD, declaring, I am very confident that we will get a majority. ... The trend is upward. There is a lot of movement in the polls.

His timing, I think, was unfortunate. A junior senator in the minority party doesn't get much of an opportunity to shine.

The only thing real that they had that had any relationship to a budget was a tax plan that the majority leader introduced, and now that's even in doubt, ... Now it appears that they're pulling that back, so I'm not sure what's real and what isn't from th

I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.

He's been involved in baseball before as a minority owner with the (St. Louis) Cardinals. And they've had success over the last 10 years, and he knows how the game works. He has a great deal of passion and energy for baseball. He loves the game.

Our study has demonstrated that a majority of people -- especially women -- are not getting the proper dosage from injections to the buttocks. There's no question that obesity is the underlying cause.

We certainly have to improve at home. We didn't seem to have the team we wanted at home, and guys sometimes have a difficult time adjusting to Chicago and a majority of day games.

We always expect to be successful. We feel like the talent level is strong enough to win a majority of our games and challenge for conference and regional championships.

We've seen over the last 12 months or so people going into deployments. The technology has gone from early adopter to early majority.

When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, if afterward persists by itself, needing no effort to maintain it since no one attacks it. Those who at first rejected it as false come in the end to adopt it as accepted, and even those who still at the bottom of their hearts oppose it keep their views to themselves, taking great care to avoid a dangerous and futile contest.

When I'm up on stage, I don't think about anything except the song I'm singing. Anyway, the majority of my audience is female, and I can't think that many of them want to see me a French maid outfit somehow!

I think, if you were to hold the vote today, she would not get a majority, either in the Judiciary Committee or on the floor,

Democracy, n. A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of direct expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic ... negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Result is demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.

We have had a 30-year period in which the real median wage has grown 9, while productivity is up 80. Almost none of that improvement has gone to the majority of the labor force.

The bottom line, this is a venture that benefits many constituencies from local stations to local communities, minority audiences to children, from Madison Avenue to Wall Street, and to the shareholders of the new CBS Corporation, Time Warner and the Tribune Co.. This is a great business and creative move for all three companies.

I spent 40 years of my life getting us here, ... The idea that I would be the excuse to cannibalize the majority is so sickening I couldn't risk it.

No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.

The prime minister is traveling without trying to make consensus here. I prefer to be with the majority.

Sooner or later, more firms will be given the opportunity to own a majority stake in a nuclear project. The sector is limited right now for security sake.

We're just going to focus on individual events this weekend. The majority of the team will travel home Saturday night after the individual events, while a couple of the field event competitors will stay to compete Sunday. It makes it difficult to compete in the relays on Sunday, travel home and be prepared for classes Monday morning.

I'm probably going to be out there the majority of the time. I'll take it like I take every other game, just prepare during the week as usual, and whenever I get in the game, I'm just going to make sure I'm efficient with everything I do.

Once it was determined that she had a majority of support, we all backed the decision. I think the county ought to know.

Winning his party's nomination in 2000 will be considerably easier for Gore if he can lock up the African-American vote, which accounts for as much as a quarter of the Democratic-primary total. So he is courting the party's most loyal voters at every opportunity. At a time when there is little federal money to spread around, Gore has championed the Administration's empowerment-zone program, which pours millions of dollars into depressed areas like inner Detroit. During the fall campaign, he visited black churches on Sundays with a rousing sermon that an aide described as very un-Al Gore, ... The Vice President will not have any problem connecting with ethnic minorities.

As a majority member in the senate I can do a lot more for our district back here. We've seen the difference between Senator Meier and what he can do for the district and what I'm able to do just because of the make-up of both houses and it's an exciting opportunity and a challenge to know that.

Of the 17 dead swans, the majority died of H5N1, but this does not mean all of them died of that strain.

We are not little boys playing cowboys and Indians. A majority is a majority.

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.

They will not let anything stand in the way of remaining in the majority, even if it means crossing swords with the president.

I couldn't help thinking during the past two Tests that it's been very rare that we've been well and truly outplayed for the majority of two matches in a row and found ourselves under pressure for long periods, ... And basically suffering what other teams normally face against us. It's almost as if we've become those opposition teams, and England has suddenly become Australia.