Majority Quotes

By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime.

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

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

Stephen Harper, who's the prime minister of Canada, he is saying that this - we have to give him a majority government, otherwise there will be a Separatist coalition. And he says it every minute.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

You can set up whatever negotiations or structure you want, but until the Palestinians are willing to accept the fact, as the majority of Israelis do, that there should be two states between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, we won't have peace.

The whole of the Bill is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Now I have known Sen. Bill Frist, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, since he was born.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously.

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.

It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.

While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality.

What scared me in that debate is that it's not about the ownership rules at all. The vast majority of people don't even know what the rules say, to be perfectly candid. Name all six of them.

The American people are going to judge the majority party here today. If they go out here and vote for this rule that allows this provision to be stricken, they are voting against the men and women in the military of our country.

As part of our layered approach, we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units to help detect concealed metallic and non-metallic threats on passengers. These machines are now in use at airports nationwide, and the vast majority of travelers say they prefer this technology to alternative screening measures.

I dare say that a majority of the American people think that having a fair hearing on an issue of importance in our relations with Mexico is extremely important to our national interest, as well as theirs.

Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.

If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come.

Having said that, I enjoyed every minute of my time and I got a degree of job satisfaction which I am sure was far greater than the majority of my colleagues.

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

For the vast majority of places in America, there is no way you can build a security system such as we have here because of the high priority this rates in terms of terrorist interests.

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

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.

There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families.