The Majority Quotes

I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.

The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.

I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? Would you have had him wait till that time came?--till you and I came over to him?

I am a majority of one.

Acting alone, minorities can never achieve the majorities necessary for political change.

We're working with our friends in the Middle East, many of which, as you know, are Muslim majority nations.

I intend to defeat ISIS, to do so in a coalition with majority Muslim nations.

When I became secretary of state, we had 200,000 troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I'm very grateful that we have brought home the vast majority of those.

I want to - on behalf of myself, and I think on behalf of a majority of the American people, say that, you know, our word is good.

The Little Guy, behind whom politicians strategically coalesce — thumping majorities prevail in a democracy — cannot abide by a reality in which greater wealth affords greater "access."

It's hard for the majority of people to accept what they don't understand.

The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.

Historically, the responsibility for voting on the debt limit has gone to the party in the majority.

I personally spend the majority of my time by far on outreach and education and fundraising and administration.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.

In a time when our nation is engaged in multiple, long-term wars, it's critical that "the military" not become an abstraction to the vast majority of Americans who are not participants.

The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor.

Where a majority are united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure.

The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness on that account

Other than my hundreds of arrests I really don't have that much experience with the law. While the majority of people aren't corrupt, there certainly is an awful lot of corruption in this country.

To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult. I always think that, as long as it's funny underneath, then you can argue that a teaspoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

I try to make the majority of my audience laugh. That's my audience. They'll laugh at the dead terrorist.

President Bush will go down in history as the torture president. He has now defied a majority of Congress to allow the use of interrogation techniques that any reasonable observer would call torture.

When it comes to diversity, women are still underrepresented in so many different places, but one place we're not underrepresented is we hold a majority of the household income, and we control that.

We call for, actually, a weapons embargo to the Middle East, which we can lead since we are supplying the majority of weapons which, in fact, then find their way into all parties on all sides.

Remember, the majority of Donald Trump supporters don't actually support him. They're mainly motivated by not liking Hillary Clinton.

Unlike the vast majority of people, I've been locked in a box like an animal and I've also been on the receiving end of bloody thrashings, so I feel uniquely qualified to judge which is worse.

The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.

I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.

You don't just go with a majority because it's the majority. You go with it because it's right. If it feels right, do it. As long as it's legal.

I created hoaxes. I confronted and challenged the majority opinion. I attacked, humiliated, and criticized the voice of the corporate mainstream media.

The more Americans find out about President Barack Obama's health care law, the less they like it. A majority of Americans want out.

The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.

The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.

Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.

Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.

I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.

If the majority holds some thing of value, you can be certain it has none.

I make the majority of my money from Patron, but my passion is with Paul Mitchell: I spend 85 per cent of my time on it.

The great majority of those who speak of perfectibility as a dream, do so because they feel that it is one which would afford them no pleasure if it were realized.

The bad workmen who form the majority of the operatives in many branches of industry are decidedly of opinion that bad workmen ought to receive the same wages as good.

Compromise is what it's got to be all about when you're governing, because no one is ever going to have a big enough majority to just do what they want to do all the time.

A majority can do anything.

Sales-driven cultures can really differentiate you from the majority of the competition.

People often say, "Riots aren't revolutions." That's true. The vast majority of riots never become revolutionary. On the other hand, show me the revolution that started without a riot.

We haven't learned to be the majority party. We haven't learned how to lead. We're still stuck in the opposition.

I'll declare my own interest right here at the start and admit that, like the vast majority of people, I find youthful looks appealing.

I don't understand "animal people" who say they are not environmentalists. Do they not realize that the vast majority of animals live in the environment?

Obviously, for the majority of parents and certainly me you gain a million worlds when you have a child. Certainly, it's the thing that's changed my life and made me unbelievably happy.

Do you see any majority, anywhere, in this imperfect and irreligious world, admitting that the minority is precious? That any minority is precious?