Majority Quotes - Page 23

• A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat.

  Gary Neville

  Strong, Disappointment, Mistake

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• Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants - despite the Coast Guard's determination that $5.4 billion is needed over 10 years.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Determination, Years, Administration

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• I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble.

  Michael Palin

  People, Trying, Quality

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.

  Rand Paul

  Support, Aids, Foreign Aid

  "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 3, 2012.

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• The majority of people who join law enforcement are doing it for good, moral reasons, but then there are the few who get through, where you go, 'Whoa, hold on a second. What's this guy doing here?'

  Guy Pearce

  Law, People, Guy

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• Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.

  Mike Pence

  People, Priorities, Moral

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All we're getting from the Democratic majority in Congress and from this White House is more bailouts, more spending, more planned stimulus, more deficits and debt, and the American people have had it.

  Mike Pence

  White, People, House

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. July 18, 2010.

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• Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life.

  Dennis Prager

  Thinking, Views, People

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• I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.

  Pat Robertson

  Thinking, America, Judging

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• On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking.

  Kid Rock

  Country, Thinking, Views

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• Like the vast majority of my constituents, I continue to be concerned about record profits reported by petroleum companies at a time when consumers are paying record high prices for gasoline.

  Mike Rogers

  Records, Gasoline, Profit

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• President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and their team have failed the American people, and that is why their majority will soon be out the door.

  Mitt Romney

  Team, Doors, Usa

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• Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.

  Marco Rubio

  Believe, Heart, America

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• In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Love, Country, America

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2003). “Democracy in America”, p.708, Regnery Publishing

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• A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.

  Tom Udall

  Able, Should, Congress

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• Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world, the truth is that the vast majority of youth offenders will one day be released. The question is simple and stark. Do we want to help them change or do we want to help them become even more violent and dangerous?

  Ayelet Waldman

  Country, Simple, America

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• Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists between women and men in these communities is holding back progress. These women have a very tough time, so much is expected of them.

  Dionne Warwick

  Latin, Men, America

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• Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.

  George Will

  Law, Democracy, Judicial Review

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• The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.

  E. O. Wilson

  Two, Challenges, Economic

  "Darwin's natural heir" by Ed Douglas, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2001.

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• The majority of my blood is Asian.

  Tiger Woods

  Blood, Asian

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• 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.

  Carter G. Woodson

  College, People, Finishing

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.2, Book Tree

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• A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.

  Caitlin Moran

  Shoes, Magazines, Ruined

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• In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Favour, Finance, Polls

  "Are we back to the 1930s again? Here's why we shouldn't panic" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2013.

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• To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Self, Exception

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• The Ambassador and the General were briefing me on the....the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice.

  George W. Bush

  People, Justice, Peaceful

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