Majority & Minority Quotes (1858 Quotes)

The diversity of this neighborhood keeps growing. The area used to be almost all black, now the majority here are Mexican.

After 11 years of Republican majority, we've pared it down pretty good.

Will it be flawless No. Will there be some customers that slip through the cracks Yes. But for the majority of orders, they will be ready. The only way to get to 100 percent is on the fly.

Strong efforts have been made in Ohio to curb the authoritarianism of our Secretary of State, Kenneth Blackwell, as he has purged people from lists in our State in particular precincts where voters are heavily minority.

Suppose you're on some committee - say the Transportation Committee, and a major transportation reauthorization bill is in the works. If you're managing the bill, you're going to make sure that the speaker's, majority leader's and whip's districts are treated pretty well.

The new text substantially advances the discussion and gives a good basis to achieve a stronger human rights council, assuming there is a decision to have members of the council elected by a two-thirds majority.

Minorities have to remain vigilant that Abercrombie is doing what it promised to do. Not only should minorities apply to Abercrombie, we need to monitor if Abercrombie is treating Asian Americans and other minorities fairly in the hiring process and when they are working. We need to hold Abercrombie's feet to the fire.

I didn't really care, one way or the other. But it sounds like the people didn't want it, so that's the way it was voted. That's what it was all about let the people vote. A majority of the people voted they do not want privatization, so we won't have it. We'll pick up and go from there.

(It's) a very thin, but real majority.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

We meet again Monday, ... Each of us can take time to go over the numbers again. If a majority thinks we should -- or if it's unanimous -- we will contact Capt. (Larry) Faith of the sheriff's department and ask him to look at what we're seeing. It doesn't seem right.

I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women.

It's the politics of the Liberal party that they seem to get away with this kind of thing in Ontario and to some degree in Quebec. He'll likely form another government. Whether it's a minority or a majority, I don't know. But certainly he'll get votes out of Ontario.

Disengagement is a response to certain demographic realities, ... Within a few years, due to the higher Arab birth rate, Jews will become a minority in the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. I don't want Israel to be South Africa because we don't believe in apartheid. We simply have to separate from the Palestinians so that we can control our own destinies.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

I can do more on the outside of the House than I can on the inside right now. I want to continue to fight for the conservative cause. I want to continue to work for a Republican majority.

Marches will only get you so far. There has to be an electoral component to get the Republicans out of the majority.

We won't go hostile. We want to own the whole of the business. Therefore we want to own over 90 percent in order to squeeze out the minorities.

The vast majority are still running at 70-miles-per-hour, at those speeds, there's little room for error.

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

I think that the majority of Iraqi people, including some Arab Sunnis, will vote for 'yes' in the referendum.

That tells us the national AFL-CIO is in a desperate effort to protect its position in Kentucky and has very little regard for the welfare of the majority of people in this state. We fully expected this.

We are told the outage impacted a majority of customers.

This (forum) is for the individual member of the community. That is a group we have not heard from yet, and they are the most critical. The majority of users of the parks are individuals.

The Senate last week decided it wanted to go down this road, so my view is if the majority of the Senate wants to go down this path, let's make sure it's effective,

When you're dealing with a team that doesn't have the experience ... having players out there who can read and know where to go and where to be, it helps. I'm comfortable with him, the majority of the time, being in the right spot.

The good thing is, the majority of the Americans in Helsinki were part of the 2002 world junior team with me. We hope it will get people interested in track. That's the plan -- to suck people in.

I think the majority of the hospitals are still using paper-based systems. But many of them are migrating into an electronic record keeping program because they see the benefits of that. The other big piece that contributes to that is hospital IT systems have made significant improvements in the last few years. If we were talking five years ago, not a lot of sterile processing departments had computers in them. Now nearly all of them have computers in areas beyond just the managers office. Sterile processing departments really recognize, as we all do in both our personal lives and professional lives, the benefits of using IT technology to make our jobs easier.

The speaker believes the minority leader should ask Representative Mollohan to step aside from the ethics committee during this investigation.

The civil rights of European Americans are being violated by affirmative action, forced integration and anti-European immigration policies... . We face cultural discrimination in the media and education... . An example is the media hate crime hysteria that highlights and publicizes any white crime against minorities.

As a minority coach, you have to prove yourself. Things can change, but it's always important to remember where you come from.

Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.

Hastert has an ally there who knows how to win a battle in the minority. If you're there for him, he's there for you.

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

We graduated seven seniors and the majority of them were starters. In addition one of the returning seniors decided not to play this season.

The important thing to do is understand we are all in this together, ... Yes, we are the largest minority, but that in itself means nothing.

Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother's family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime.

I know that Bush, for political reasons, is going to nominate a minority, a Hispanic man or someone where it will be harder for people on the progressive side to oppose and split some of the traditionally progressive or democratic constituents.

That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board.

I find that the majority of the actors I've worked with are extremely sensitive people and very spontaneous people. That's why I always say I'll never date an actor, because they're in love with you one day and the next day they're not.

It would be illegal to apply this proposed definition to any federal contract. The minority small business community is not well served by a resolution that flies in the face of existing laws.

The Bulldogs have made significant inroads in this area with the help from the majority of fans,

They really didn't even give the mounted unit a chance. Chief Gainer has 535 bosses, ... and every one of them thinks they know something about police work, when, in fact, the majority of them don't know one damn thing.

Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.

We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority.

Few men desire liberty The majority are satisfied with a just master.

They're claiming the majority of employees are displaced. Waste Management is a large enough company that if they really valued the ability to do work in Jefferson Parish, they would have been able to maintain service here. They had the ability to bring trailers in, ... To me, Waste Management has absolutely zero planning for these types of disasters.

I was early (in the program's integration). I can remember a lot of times (recognizing) that it was a big thing to be a minority at the University of Kentucky. But it's totally changed now. They've got a black head coach (Tubby Smith).

Look at the entire parcel as a recreation area. We slid the pool over to retain a majority of the (youth) football field.

The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands.