Majority Quotes - Page 20

• Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

  Robert Bork

  Democracy, Way, Mercy

  Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• I have always favored Capitalism as the best economic system and Democracy as the best political system. They both have the most potential for improving the lives of people. However, both systems need to be reexamined and refreshed so that, in fact, they do serve the majority of people.

  Philip Kotler

  People, Political, Democracy

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I think that the risk to all the progress we've made was at stake in the election because not just the president-elect but a lot of members of Congress, including now the Speaker of the House and the Senate majority leader, have said that their principal agenda was to undo a lot of this progress. But as I've been talking about over the last several days when it comes to health care, the gains that we've made are there. Twenty million people have health insurance that didn't have it before. The uninsured rate is the lowest it's ever been.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Talking, Majority Leader

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• One of the gratifying things, I think, about the end of my presidency even though admittedly my successor ran against a lot of what we stood for, is when you look at the individual issues and the progress that we've made on a lot of those issues, we got the support of a pretty decent majority.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Issues, Support

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• [The generation engaged, inspired, worked for change] that generation, it's coming. They're not the majority yet but they're gonna be the majority soon.

  Barack Obama

  Generations, Inspired, Engaged

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• When you look at what [new generation] believe in, how they value diversity, how they believe in science, how they care about the environment, how they believe in, you know, everybody getting a fair shot, how they believe in not discriminating against people for sexual orientation and you know, their belief that we have to work with other countries to create a more peaceful world and to alleviate poverty, that's the majority an entire generation that's coming up behind us.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Believe, Diversity

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• These [conservative] people, if they're Americans, look back on the last 35 years of our ecclesial experience and take heart from that. The dramatic reform of seminaries continues. The priests and bishops who take their pastoral model from John Paul II will continue to do so, perhaps learning a lesson or two from Francis along the way - and they'll be the overwhelming majority of the Church's ordained ministers ten, twenty, thirty years from now.

  George Weigel

  Heart, Years, Two

  Source: eppc.org

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• There is something which is going to be one of the main challenges in the Muslim world today, in the Muslim-majority countries in the Arab world, is the religious credibility. How are you going to react to what is said about Islam? So, by touching the prophet of Islam, the reaction should be, who is going to be the guardian?

  Tariq Ramadan

  Country, Religious, Touching

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• Even after the whole democratization process, it's quite clear that the United States are not seen in a positive way in all the Muslim-majority countries - in Egypt, in Libya, even in Tunisia - even though we have now a kind of trying to be recognized as democrats by the Islamists who are running, you know, Tunisia and Egypt. But the popular sentiment is very, very negative.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Running, Country, Egypt

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• Populism is everywhere. We have religious populism in the Muslim-majority countries as much as we have populism in the United States of America.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Country, Religious, America

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• In the Muslim-majority countries you can't do without Islam, we can't do without their culture, in which way they are going to come back to this Islamic reference to find a way to deal with the true challenges and not the superficial political questions.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Country, Islamic, Political

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• As Muslims, our interests are our values. In any society, be it in Western or Muslim-majority countries, our duty is that of critical loyalty: Staying loyal to our countries by always being critically engaged in the name of the principles of justice, equality and human brotherhood. We should be the ethical and moral voice wherever we are by saying that, even though we understand economic and geo-strategic interests, we cannot accept a violation of these principles by any society.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Loyalty, Country, Names

  "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". The Islamic Monthly Interview, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.

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• I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that's where the majority of the citizens are and that's where the engine of of development has to be found.

  Chinua Achebe

  Thinking, Citizens, Rural Areas

  Source: www.ehlingmedia.com

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• Bolivia is in the lead internationally in talking about the threat of environmental catastrophe. It's generally true where there are indigenous populations, there are important things happening; where the indigenous populations have been marginalized or exterminated, things go to a disaster. This is true worldwide, and Bolivia is striking because it's a majority population and in the lead.

  Noam Chomsky

  Talking, Environmental, Important

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The large majority of faith-based people are decent, fair-minded people. We should not characterize people of faith as the adversaries of GLBT equality.

  George Takei

  People, Should, Decent

  Source: progressive.org

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• Trump is not presidential: this is not normal, it cannot be treated as normal. We have to fight with our last breath to make sure that the vision for the country that this racist white nationalist Bannon has cannot be achieved in this country. We are a country that, whether he likes it or not, is about to become the first nation in the world that is majority minorities.

  Reza Aslan

  Country, Fighting, White

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The paradox in China is that while some things change very rapidly, others don't. The appearance of its cities may be entirely different, but the inner workings behind these changes still persist: the regulation of society, the hierarchies of power, the relationship of the individual to the majority.

  Sze Tsung Leong

  Cities, Different, May

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In one era the majority puts its faith and sympathy with the bullfighter, in another with the bull.

  Bette Ford

  Bulls, Eras

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands.

  Bhumibol Adulyadej

  Government, Survival, Important

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• I'm not an elected official who puts a finger in the wind to see what the majority thinks; I represent women, whether they're popular or not.

  Gloria Allred

  Thinking, Wind, Fingers

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• When the American people elected Barack Obama and large Democrat majorities, the die was cast. ObamaCare was coming. Popular or not, constitutional or not, affordable or not, it didn't matter.

  Bob Beauprez

  Obamacare, People, Matter

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• No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.

  Judy Biggert

  Children, Issues, Age

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• But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've expressed it tonight: standing on principle, checking Washington's power and leading the drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government.

  John Boehner

  Mistake, Government, Voice

  "John Boehner Delivers Remarks at Election Night Results Watch". abcnews.go.com. November 2, 2010.

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• Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Thinking, Cities, Answers

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• There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.

  David Bowie

  Brother, People, Want

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.21, Melville House

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