What about the majority? I’m so tired of protecting the rights of the minority. What about the rest of the country?
But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives.
I like to spend time with my family. The majority of my time is spent in London, but I do like to escape and spend time with them in my hometown of Brighton on the south coast.
The majority of actor kids are really competitive. But Gabby Sidibe on ‘The Big C’ has been a big help to me. Her career went from zero to a hundred in about one second, so she’s warned me what to expect.
As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.
Here’s the question for my fellow Republicans: Do we want to be the first-ever GOP House majority to raise federal marginal income tax rates?
Our Keystone legislation received strong bipartisan support in the Senate. Although it didn’t receive the 60 votes necessary for passage, 56 senators – a majority – voted in favor of the bill. Despite President Obama’s actively lobbying against the bill, we still won the support of 11 Democrats.
A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
It is quite true – in fact, obvious on the surface – that the vast majority of dramatic shows and comedies, as well, advocate a liberal and humanistic and relativistic lifestyle and concept.
Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.
For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
I feel that the majority of people should decide for themselves what kind of government they want.
No matter how long you’d been in the country, if you weren’t in Australia for the majority of 2000 to 2002 – when I was particularly busy filming overseas – you can’t become a citizen.
The vast majority of the American people are hard-working taxpayers who take responsibility for their families, go to work every day, they pay their mortgage on time, they volunteer in their community.
I stand with the majority of Americans who believe that women will make the right choice for their families and everyone will win.
African soccer has grown to the extent that the majority of its players are playing for European teams and that is very good as they are becoming role models for the youngsters on the continent.
The majority of U.S. high school students don’t know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.
I’m serious about this. The Republican Party needs to reform or die. President Bush did three things. He destroyed the Republican majority, he crippled the American conservative movement and he weakened the country. That’s a hell of a trifecta.
Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That’s an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.
I’m fascinated by politicians, because I suspect the huge majority of them go into it full of ideas and for the best possible reasons but end up being hijacked.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate, and articles in the literature of procrastination often allude to the author’s own problems with finishing the piece.
Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.
Secularism will not work in Egypt any more than theocracy. What will work is governance that is guided by the Islamic values of the majority with protection of the minority rights.
So, yes, we do celebrate America today because the majority will stand up and empower the American people to live that American Dream and to be part of making a better, freer, and safer world.
Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how they, too, support the troops.
Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.
We need the middle class to feel more confident about its prospects and about its future. We need to cut down on this anxiety that sees some people succeeding and the majority struggling – having to make choices between paying for their kids’ education or saving for their own retirement.
For those who have envisioned the State of Israel to be a democracy, which although primarily a Jewish polity for Jews is one in which non-Jews can become citizens and enjoy equal civil rights with the Jewish majority, the question of natural law is the question of human rights.
I think it’s important Republicans be in the majority so, like my Democratic counterparts, I give to the party.
There is nothing that I didn’t get to do while I was serving in Congress – except be in the majority.
What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.
If a budget is designed to show our values, it’s clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America’s hard-working, tax-paying middle class.
I’ll declare my own interest right here at the start and admit that, like the vast majority of people, I find youthful looks appealing.
I’m not of the opinion that all software will be open source software. There is certain software that fits a niche that is only useful to a particular company or person: for example, the software immediately behind a web site’s user interface. But the vast majority of software is actually pretty generic.
Autoimmunity is probably the next frontier. The majority of cases of autoimmune disease result from a complex genetic problem that has environmental influences. It is a colossal task for the immune system to maintain tolerance to self and yet be ready to react to everything in the world around us.
I find that the majority of the actors I’ve worked with are extremely sensitive people and very spontaneous people. That’s why I always say I’ll never date an actor, because they’re in love with you one day and the next day they’re not.
But there’s no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don’t believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don’t believe in anything.
Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.
Apartheid – both petty and grand – is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.
When you go to your local police officer, your police chief in the town you live in, big or small, he will tell you the vast majority of the weapons recovered at a crime scene are either stolen weapons, and/or they have been ‘lost’ or stolen.
The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
When men hold the greater majority of all professional positions of power, it is impossible for a woman to advance her career without the support of men.
The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world’s Muslims.
I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.
Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote.
Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.
A large majority of Americans believe that corporations exert too much influence on our daily lives and our political process.
Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.
The Green Party represents that majority point of view within the U.S.
The majority of surveys throughout this Nation show that the American people are advocating for a comprehensive and realistic approach to immigration reform.
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.
I think I’m in the majority of Americans. I believe that I am in the mainstream of middle America.
The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone.
The majority of border collie owners and breeders don’t want to have anything to do with the show ring.
FDR created today’s 30 percent coalition. Obama wants to finish the job by turning it into a permanent ruling majority. There’s nothing new about the Obama Narrative. It is the FDR Narrative on steroids. It is intended to lead to greater statism and political gain.
