Majority & Minority Quotes (1858 Quotes)

Disparities in the health care delivered to racial and ethnic minorities are real and are associated with worse outcomes in many cases, which is unacceptable,

You have to understand the measurement of success sometimes comes in not where you wanted them to end up, but how far they've come. I've asked a lot of these kids to step up, and they've done that. I can't fault the kids. The majority of them wrestled as hard as they could possibly wrestle.

With the majority of Fortune 500 companies having domestic partner benefits, it becomes an issue of being able to recruit and retain employees.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations has been 200 years.

I think we have the momentum to get a majority, and I want to keep up this momentum right to the end.

We were looking for the best candidate. We have a global search here for the right candidate, and it didn't matter if they were a minority.

An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent.

If the Democrats can't win the 1st District of Iowa, I don't see how they can win the majority.

The general referendum will be successful and the draft constitution ratified if a majority of the voters in Iraq approve and if two-thirds of the voters in three or more governorates do not reject it.

While many shoppers headed out to the stores over the weekend, the majority first turned to the Internet to check prices and product availability.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

They have a very vocal tiny minority of American citizens who overwhelm the majority because they are so vocal and they're so vehement. So politicians are afraid of them,

This is kind of the untold story, the story doesn't grab national headlines. But if you look at what's happening in community after community, you see that when the numbers in minority communities reach a certain point and when they start to be interested in voting and politics, there's often resistance - and that resistance takes forms that violate the law.

While there are people for whom this is an easy ride, for the vast majority, bankruptcy is not an easy ride.

We want to have a second team and we can share information, ... It will make things better. Plus, we want to attract the minority population and have them support our race team.

I couldn't give any help-side defense. They kind of have a similar style to N.C. State, where I'm guarding the high post for the majority of the game. That's one of the things that can allow a lot of backdoor stuff.

We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority.

The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity.

It's growing like a weed. It shows that the major political parties are unappealing to the majority of the state, that they're holding their noses while they vote.

The general intent of the MSA was to limit exposure and we've complied by pulling our ads off taxis, T-shirts, buses and billboards, ... But we have the right to communicate with adults about our product in magazines that are read by a majority of adults.

I think the majority of the people do not feel that this is an appropriate spot.

Partnerships and pools don't work in the same way for women and minorities.

We are seeing that the majority of consumers today are interested in organics in one form or another, and we want to help them find those organic selections at the best value. You will see this expansion begin in our Texas stores in the upcoming weeks.

I am told that the majority of Iraqis wanted Saddam removed from power, but they were unwilling and were incapable of doing the job themselves because they feared Saddam and knew the pain and torture he was capable of inflicting upon them.

Between us, France and Britain will commit a majority of the troops that are currently committed to that (NATO) force, ... We are both clear we are only going to supply our troops ... if there is a cease-fire and a demilitarization on both sides.

We in Washington, D.C., are experiencing the best of times but yet the worst of times. The number of jobs is rising, but so is unemployment. Go to these construction sites. You'll find that a majority of construction workers are not District residents.

We haven't played well in about two, three weeks, since the last time we beat White Bear (Feb. 11), but we put it together tonight. We shut down a pretty good team for the majority of the game.

Mill River beat up on us. They out-physicalled us and out-sized us and out-quicked us in just about every facet of the game. I think the majority of the boys are young men we had last year. They've got pretty good memories and that's one I know they wouldn't forget.

Democracy is not one obsessed man using the power of kings to attack another country in our name. Democracy is not siding with Ariel Sharon, a war criminal, in order to crush Palestinians. Democracy is this great event today representing the majority of the people of Great Britain.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

Our people are on conference calls right now, working through a lot of the issues like where should we be sending our people, where are the majority of claims coming in at the moment, what is the primary damage.

I think if you talk to the majority of the players in the league, he's our guy. . . . We didn't do it quite properly, and when we do, he'll be the guy for sure.

There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish and others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

Not all mail is screened. We had to take the majority of where the population centers and the mail are, and so there are parts of the mail that don't (get screened), and it depends on the state.

Schwarzenegger can't afford to sign the 'gay marriage license' bill. He'll actually become a hero to the majority of Californians when he vetoes it. The Terminator should announce without delay that this bill is dead meat.

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.

Ted is the right man for the job. He's the architect of the deal and he knows the CBA inside-out. I think this just a minority group of disgruntled players.

Our core business today exists on the computer because that's where the majority of our users are, ... Our goal is to provide our users on any platform with whatever content they are most interested in.

It's hard to say. They didn't do anything we didn't expect. We just didn't convert. Penalties and not converting on third downs cost us. I got behind them that first time and then the majority of their defense was that cover-two look with a corner on me and a safety moving over to help. We thought they'd do it more on the boundary. They varied that a little bit.

The majority finally, someone is getting up to speak for the majority, ... And we're not going to be silent any longer.

They got a hit when they needed it and we did very little offensively for the majority of the night.

The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.

Assuming the Republicans keep the House, this may not be just the election of a majority leader, but the selection of the next speaker.

Today, the parliamentary majority, with the aid of foreign powers allied to Israel, is dividing the Lebanese with the well-known goal of weakening Lebanon.

We know that governing in a minority is not going to be easy. But we have our legislative and governmental priorities and we will work together with others to find shared goals and common ideas.

As damaging as these attacks have been, the vast majority were conducted by disgruntled individuals, ... We face a future, though, where criminals, terrorists or even nation-states may use the same tools in a more organized way for darker purposes.

In the complex and complicated reality in which the country finds itself, I have no intention of standing at the head of a minority government for months on end,

I think African-Americans are certainly tired of being stereotyped as responsible for the majority of crime in American society.

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.