Majority & Minority Quotes (1858 Quotes)

I'd say the majority of shareholders, maybe 95 percent, will sell back.

Revolutionizing takes some talents, many talents, ... My friend Newt Gingrich brought those talents to bear and put the Republicans in the majority. Day-to-day governing takes others. I believe I have those talents.

It would be a big surprise if the ruling coalition didn't get a majority.

A grand coalition is not only extraneous to our program, but it happens when no majority emerges from the elections. In this case, a majority came out.

In the article Um, I don't think that's a good idea, ... Normally, I find myself in the minority... Like the lone man sitting amongst the audience during a Dr. Phil episode taping, I usually find everyone in the group looking at me as if I had just killed a baby kitten, simply because I am different. I am a supporter of President Bush.

The first couple periods, we were in it. We had chances but we didn't get any bounces. You can't blame what happened tonight on a lack of effort for the majority of the game. It looks a lot worse than it is just because of the last part of the third period.

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

I certainly hope that on November 3, the country is returned to the majority,

These guys are going to have to step up and be the pitchers they were the majority of the season for us to have a successful postseason,

We're expected to make the majority of tackles, ... We have to worry about up the middle, sweeps and also drop back on passes.

We had an outstanding season. The kids played great all season. We just came up a little short in that championship game. But with the majority of our team coming back, we should be in good shape.

The overwhelming majority would go one way or another.

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

Equality and respect for all are central to Europe's democratic tradition. Bans on gay pride marches and thinly veiled calls for censorship send a message that minority rights are at the mercy of the majority. They violate Poland's European and international obligations.

The Gulf Coast area has been hit hard by this storm and we are seeing the needs increase everyday as the residents from New Orleans and neighboring states try to rebuild their lives. Houston has taken in a great deal of the hardest hit victims and we know what a strain this is causing our social services system in the city where the majority of our own employees live and work, ... We want to do what we can to help and we believe this corporate donation, coupled with our matching dollars for employee contributions, will help bring immediate relief to the agencies and volunteers who are providing vital services to those in need.

There's more of a necessity to work with minorities, period.

Kerry's economic policies would raise taxes on minority small-business owners, whose numbers are steadily increasing as a result of the President's pro-growth policies. Under President Bush's leadership, a majority of minority families are homeowners for the first time in history.

Democracy is sometimes painful, but patience and tolerance, the will of the majority, are bound to win.

We are not prepared to negotiate now with a minority union and give a minority of employees more benefits.

We had the majority of the match -- we dictated most of the play. They came to get a 0-0 result -- they did their job.

Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves.

Look at television and how comparatively few minorities are out there.

When a 67 percent majority is required to pass a bond, I think it is incumbent that every attempt be made to get everybody possible to the polls.

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

In the past, this has been a very important part of our recruiting. Hopefully, that person will also be out recruiting for our city when it comes to specific jobs, minorities, whatever the case might be. It's a very important position, and we're glad to be at the point that we are.

They generate the majority of their revenues now from the tax programs, ... Perhaps they're just reiterating their commitment to the Mac platform.

If we get the necessary majority, there will be coalition negotiations very soon.

They're running a minority government, so (Conservative leader) Stephen Harper isn't going to give the opposition a gift in the form of a deficit.

I'm convinced this will allow us to slowly build a majority in parliament and allow backing for the government until 2009.

It's positive, the majority of the Swiss electorate has supported the bilateral path,

One should not allow a minority or small minority to withhold their consent unreasonably. They should have the courage to vote and take decisions. But they tend to want to get consensus at all costs, and therefore you have 191 vetoes,

There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore fighting until surrender was the only alternative.

The overwhelming empirical evidence of current residence of retirement villages is that they don't go in at early ages. The majority go in middle-to-late 70s.

Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.

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I expect it to be rough. We're taking nothing for granted. I think he will be confirmed, but he will be confirmed because the Republicans have the majority.

Most hockey teams can stay out almost indefinitely because they lose less money by not playing than by playing. That's not true for baseball. I think the majority of owners know that the value for them is keeping the gates open.

It's primarily for aquifer protection. The secondary reason is the majority of our systems were put in about 30 or 40 years ago, so they're all coming of the age that they're going to be replaced. So rather then do each individual one, going to a central one is probably more prudent.

Certainly the message was directed at African-Americans both inside and outside New Orleans. It's a political message that he intends to be the mayor of a majority black city. But the statement that God intended New Orleans to be majority black certainly could be interpreted as inflammatory by non-black voters.

One area of trouble in consumer spending is households and individuals with weakening credit profiles. So far it's not yet a majority of households but the number of consumers in credit distress is on the increase. That's something to keep an eye on,

It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy.

I can't see that happening. However spurious Bush's mandate was in 2004 - let alone 2000 - Harper is sitting in a House of Commons where he doesn't have a majority. And if he wants to keep power, he's got to keep in mind the views of Canadians, two-thirds of whom say they don't want to see the same-sex marriage bill reopened. And many of whom oppose any sort of involvement in Iraq and are very suspicious of too much concession to the United States.

The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities.

Along with others, I've spent the last several weeks tussling with the powers that be so that the pro-choice point of view, ironically the point of view shared by the majority of all Republicans, can be heard in San Diego.

Obviously it's not the majority of the crowd. It's the guys who have had too much liquor. So we understand it's difficult to control. But we've made our point.

The vast majority are hanging close to home. Then there is a sign of some people really making some permanent moves away.

Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.

John determined that he should resign after it became clear to him that, although I and a majority of our board members were supportive and encouraging, there would be insufficient support from the heads of the International Association of Machinists and the Air Line Pilots Association for him to succeed me as chairman and chief executive officer,

Ah, he is young; and his minority
Is put unto the trust of Richard Gloucester,
A man that loves not me, nor none of you.

High prices mean political trouble. By itself, it wouldn't necessarily endanger the Republican control of Congress, but when you put it together with all the other problems of recent months, Republicans can't take the majority for granted.