Majority Quotes

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

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

I'm interested in being part of a majority in the Senate.

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.

I'm like a twenty-two-year-old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.

I believe that the majority of Egyptian people know who is Hosni Mubarak and it pains me what has been expressed by some people from my own country.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society.

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.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.

Reconciliation is a special budget procedure to change entitlement and tax laws. It cannot be filibustered and requires only a simple majority in the Senate to be passed. It is primarily intended for deficit and mandatory spending reduction.

You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state.

MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.

The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.

The most important loan to pay is your student loan. It's more important than your mortgage, car and credit card payments. You cannot discharge student loan debt in the majority of cases.

One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.

The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely.

Now how many people in their heart of hearts in that community want to see the demise of this country? How many would cheer, not out loud maybe, but in their heart when things like 9/11 occur and I'll tell you; it's a majority among them.

As part of our layered approach, we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units to help detect concealed metallic and non-metallic threats on passengers. These machines are now in use at airports nationwide, and the vast majority of travelers say they prefer this technology to alternative screening measures.

The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services.

I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.

It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority.

The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.