Majority Quotes - Page 5

• I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.

  Glynis Johns

  Play, British

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• Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  Government, Office, Creative

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• The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.

  Howard Fineman

  Ideas, Noble, Vietnam

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• I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed, gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.

  Barney Frank

  Gay, Left Hand, Minorities

  Interview with Claudia Dreifus, Times Magazine, February 4, 1996.

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• The Green Party represents that majority point of view within the U.S.

  Peter Camejo

  Party, Views, Green

  "Raw Data: Foxnews.com Interviews Peter Camejo". Foxnews.com Interview, www.foxnews.com. February 17, 2004.

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• Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Government, Prejudice, Vulnerable

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• Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work

  Robert Caro

  Majority Leader, United States, Made

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• Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.

  Eliot Ness

  Race, Law, Doubt

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• And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That's the next stage.

  Sharron Angle

  Government, Next, Bondage

  "Angle: “What’s happening (in America)..is a violation of the 1st Commandment,” entitlements “make government our God.”". Interview, lasvegassun.com. August 4, 2010.

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• The minority yields to the majority!

  Deng Xiaoping

  Yield, Minorities, Majority And Minority

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

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• Its always the minorities who arent a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.

  Rose Bird

  Minorities, Limits, Mainstream

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• With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Party, Congress, Stakes

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• We cannot let a minority of people hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people.

  Hillary Clinton

  People, Minorities, Viewpoints

  "Hillary Clinton Equates Gun Control Opponents With Terrorists" by Jacob Sullum, reason.com. June 18, 2014.

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• 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.

  John Fogerty

  Kids, Years, Break Through

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• Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.

  Diane Watson

  Halloween, Rights, Groups

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• That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.

  Gamaliel Bailey

  Doubt, Preference, Stores

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• Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.

  Lytton Strachey

  Giving, Age, Peculiar

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.72, Delphi Classics

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• The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives.

  Robert Reich

  Real, Taken, Years

  "Robert Reich's Call to 'Reason'". BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. June 16, 2004.

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• It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.

  Franz von Papen

  Party, Government, Might

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• We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.

  Horace Mann

  Insane, Vote, Hospitals

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.184

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• We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority.

  King Hussein I

  Believe, Opinion, Should

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• The results of the two referenda demonstrate the majority view of the Taiwanese people.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Views, Two, People

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• A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Minorities, Catchy, Conform

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.11, Hayes Barton Press

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• To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Country, Mean, Together

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• At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war.

  Paul Robeson

  War, Ideas, Steps

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