Quotes About Majority

How many times will this Congress waste time on an issue that a majority of Americans do not want?

Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously.

The majority of Israelis want change, the Netanyahu era is coming to an end. That's not because security issues don't matter but because social and economic issues are dominating the agenda.

The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it.

I think the most important part of this now is, let's say the American people, but the polls show that the majority now don't want a war, anywhere, not only against Syria.

I find that the great majority of public servants across the entire political spectrum come because they believe in the United States and they want to change the world.

Very rarely does a mainstream film push the envelope. A film that's so-called mainstream and questions certain norms, certain notions of morality, and gets away with it opens doors. It means the common man, the majority of the people, have accepted it.

At a minimum the majority of search dollars will flow to a social media model because people care most about what their peers think and the technology is there for that information to be quickly shared on products and services.

The citizen parties, by an absolute majority, elected a National Socialist Government.

Just when we need a strong government, what do we see? Division. Chaos. And failure. No credible plan for Brexit, no solution to prevent a hard border in Ireland and no majority in Parliament for the Chequers proposals.

Obama has offered no solutions; his Democratic majority in the Senate has failed to produce a budget in 1,200 days; and they have both obstructed the Republicans' proposed remedies.

You'll never get progress in Washington until you have a majority, bipartisan majority, that really wants to solve problems.

The argument most commonly made in the filibuster's favor is crudely partisan: 'Our side may be in the majority now, but someday it will be in the minority, and when that happens we'll want to block the other side's extremist agenda.'

The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority.

To have not succeeded in the world was required to be a source of shame for a person. And yet she suspected that failure in worldly terms was the condition of the majority people of the world. To have been rejected, to have lacked courage, to have tried but failed.

When news of the results got out, it caused many Americans to look at their country with a new sense of self-loathing. "We have a working majority of voters who have children's minds," a prominent newspaper editor named William Allen White declared.

White was convinced that the "moron majority," as he dubbed it, must be a recent development.

We have a working majority of voters who have children's minds

We need a broader party. If we're not doing better with millennials and women and Hispanics, African Americans, Asian Americans and others, we will have a tough time being a majority party at the national level.

It's important to be able to sit together and form a government of the majority that serves everyone, and not a government of minorities that takes care of itself.

The minority must bow to the majority.

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

It is no less the duty of the minority than a majority to endeavour to defend the country.

The majority is not society, is not everyone. Majority coercion over the minority is still coercion.