Majority Quotes - Page 15

• The problem of insufficient security was, until quite recently, a matter of a minority; now it is becoming very quickly a majority matter. That is a major change.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Minorities, Matter, Becoming

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• I think if you look at the statistics and you deal with fake media - and fake media and distorted media is a continuum - the vast majority of the population says, "I don't know what to believe." There are no checks and balances in quality control.

  Ray Dalio

  Believe, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• If you are going to ask me what I watch on TV, I would probably have to say the majority of it is stuff on SyFy or Discovery Channel or it's about ghost seekers.

  Boti Bliss

  Discovery, Stuff, Tvs

  Source: actionflickchick.com

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• The focus on creativity and independence exists in pockets of resistance in the educational system, which, to thrive, should be integrated with the needs and concerns of the great majority of the population. One finds them everywhere.

  Noam Chomsky

  Educational, Creativity, Focus

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example.

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, Majority Rule, Democracy

  Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

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• Between [Speaker of the House] Paul Ryan, [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell, and Donald Trump's team, I don't see a lot of openings for making real progress.

  Bill McKibben

  Real, Team, Majority Leader

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The American people want to make sure that the rules of the game are fair. And what that means is that if you look at surveys around Americans' attitudes on trade, the majority of the American people still support trade. But they're concerned about whether or not trade is fair, and whether we get the same access to other countries' markets that they have with us. Is there just a race to the bottom when it comes to wages, and so forth.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Attitude, Mean

  Source: time.com

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• The federal government and our democracy is not a speedboat. It's an oceanliner, as I discovered when I came into office. It took a lot of really hard work for us to make significant policy changes, even in our first two years, when we had larger majorities than Mr. Trump will enjoy when he comes into office.

  Barack Obama

  Hard Work, Government, Years

  "President Barack Obama Holds a News Conference". ye.usembassy.gov. November 14, 2016.

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• The majority of the population thinks that if the government runs healthcare, they're going to take away your freedom. At the same time, the public favors a national healthcare program.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.iww.org

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• The majority of Western culture came out of Europe, which is not comparable to America. It came out of nation states based on geographical and ethnic foundations. America is based on principles, a very different kind of country.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Country, Europe, America

  Source: thestagblog.com

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• We all know of the dangers and inequities of the traditional digital divide: People who have good access tocomputer networks have a distinct advantage - in terms of both life opportunities and quality of life, I wouldargue - over the vast majority of the world's population that does not yet have good access to computernetworks. The "other" digital divide points to an increasingly unstable situation that has developed inlibrarianship as digital libraries have evolved and matured.

  Tom Peters

  Opportunity, People, Library

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• The vast majority of the American people agree with me and many others. You don't simply repeal the Affordable Care Act without a replacement. Republicans have had six years to come up with a replacement. They got nothing.

  John Lewis

  Years, People, Six

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The repealing and replacing of Obamacare is very complicated. It is what a White House and congressional leadership, serious White House and serious congressional leadership, should meet on and work on and figure out a strategy of, and it may work and it may not. Obviously not every administration gets things through, even when they have much larger majorities in congress and a much larger popular vote than Donald Trump had.

  William Kristol

  Obamacare, White, Popular Vote

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Higher minimum wages, full-employment programs, early-childhood education: Those kinds of programs are, by design, universal, but by definition, because they are helping folks who are in the worst economic situations, are most likely to disproportionately impact and benefit African Americans. They also have the benefit of being sellable to a majority of the body politic.

  Barack Obama

  Impact, Design, Childhood

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• As a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said that as a consequence of historic wrongs, we are now going to take a big chunk of the nation's resources over a long period of time to make that right.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Long, Population

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• If you look at countries like South Africa, where you had a black majority, there have been efforts to tax and help that black majority, but it hasn't come in the form of a formal reparations program.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Effort, Black

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I'm not so optimistic as to think that you would ever be able to garner a majority of an American Congress that would make those kinds of investments above and beyond the kinds of investments that could be made in a progressive program for lifting up all people.

  Barack Obama

  Optimistic, Thinking, People

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• We're still fighting to make sure that basic anti-discrimination laws are enforced, not just at the federal level, by the way, but throughout government and throughout the private sector? And those are fights that we can win because - and this is where I do believe America has changed - the majority, not by any means 100 percent, but the majority of Americans believe in the idea of nondiscrimination.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Mean, Fighting

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Now, in practice, in daily social interactions, etc., there may be all kinds of biases and prejudices that are unspoken, that people aren't aware of, that affect who's hired, and who gets loans, and how kids are treated in school. But it's a powerful thing if you have on your side an idea that the overwhelming majority of people believe in because that's how you can build a consensus that's lasting.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Believe, School

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• It's just disgusting that in this society, the majority of students in art school are women, but they amount to less than 30% of what is shown in museums. That has not changed radically.

  Kiki Smith

  Art, School, Museums

  Source: crushfanzine.com

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• The surveillance revelations are critically important because they revealed that our rights are being redefined in secret, by secret courts that were never intended to have that role - without the consent of the public, without even the awareness of the majority of our political representatives.

  Edward Snowden

  Rights, Political, Secret

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I go into every meeting, into every room and for every speech understanding the standard deviation, the Bell Curve. I know there are about 10-15 percent of people in the room, who say, "I've been trying to say this for years. Finally. I agree. Yes, yes, yes." I know there are about 15 percent of the people in the room who think I'm an idiot, who think I don't know what I'm talking about, who think I'm naive or I have oversimplified everything. The majority who are open to the ideal.

  Simon Sinek

  Thinking, Curves, Talking

  Source: advisor.tv

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• If I walk into a room of 500 people, my standard is, if I can't give 400 or 450 of you something, a language or a new way of seeing something, then I have failed. If I get 100 of you, I am a failure. I have to get a majority.

  Simon Sinek

  People, Giving, Way

  Source: advisor.tv

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• The worst thing we can do is to assume that the Electoral College [voting] resulting in the election of Donald Trump represents a mandate. It does not. He did not get the majority of the popular vote; that went to Hillary Clinton. That means those votes represent the consciousness of the nation, which is that abortion should be legal, that contraception and family planning are health issues and prevention, that a woman's right to reproductive privacy is the law of the land and should remain such.

  Willie Parker

  Mean, College, Law

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• Progressives are the majority; we won the popular vote by a long shot and Donald Trump and the congressional Republicans representing mainly rich old white men are a minority. If we stand up together and use the effective strategies and tactics the tea party used, we believe we can stop them.

  Ezra G. Levin

  Party, Believe, Men

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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