Majority Quotes - Page 17

• You can't have a majority party in Minnesota or throughout the country without [support from] the people in these [rural] districts. Given the position [the Democratic Party] has taken, it's very hard to see how you can do that.

  Collin Peterson

  Country, Taken, Party

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Senator majority leader, Mitch McConnell, slammed [Donald] Trump`s comments about burning the American flag which is protected under the first amendment should lead to jail time.

  Chuck Todd

  Majority Leader, Jail Time, Flags

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Let's pretend six people live in your house. And you propose that only four people get to eat every day, and you put it to a vote. If four people vote that only four people get to eat, two people don't, that prevails. That's what a democracy is. It's strictly majority-minority rule.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Two, People, House

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• [NFL fans] wish they'd shut up and play football, and I think the vast majority of people, "Shut up and act! Shut up and sing! Shut up and star in your TV show! Just shut up and do what you do, but shut up!" I think they're wearing out their welcome.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Football, Stars, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There's so many different ways to write a rhyme its stupid man. I don't understand why the majority of the rap game sounds the same.

  Rakim

  Stupid, Rap, Writing

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• I got one of the illest crews in NY but when I travel it's mostly me and my girl, me and my kids or me and one or two of my dudes but the majority of the time its just me.

  Rakim

  Girl, Kids, Two

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• Malcolm X was the first prominent American to attack and to criticize the U.S. role in Southeast Asia, and he came out four-square against the Vietnam War in 1964, long before the vast majority of Americans did.

  Manning Marable

  War, Squares, Long

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• There are literally a thousand works with the title Malcolm X in them. There are over 350 films and over 320 web-based educational resources with the title Malcolm X, yet the vast majority of them are based on secondary literatures, that is, not on primary source material.

  Manning Marable

  Educational, Titles, Literature

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• I think the most important part of this now is, let's say the American people, but the polls show that the majority now don't want a war, anywhere, not only against Syria.

  Bashar al-Assad

  War, Thinking, People

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• We didn't say that 80% [of terrorists], for example, or the majority or the vast majority, are foreigners. We said the vast majority are Al-Qaeda or Al-Qaeda offshoot organizations in this region.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Organization, Example, Als

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• You look at [terrorists] faces, they look foreigners, but where are they coming from ? How precise this estimate is difficult to tell, but definitely the majority are Al-Qaeda.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Looks, Als, Faces

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• We never said that the majority [of the terrorists] are not Syrians, but we said that the minority is what they call "free Syrian army." That's what we said.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Army, Minorities, Said

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• I want to be really, really clear about this. It doesn't mean that everyone or even the majority of people who voted for Donald Trump are racist or white supremacists or anything like that. But what it means is that it's not a mistake that Trump began his campaign with birthersism .

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Mistake, Mean, White

  Source: www.npr.org

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• [Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to trust, you know, in his fellow, you know, white countrymen in a way that I, for instance, you know, and the vast majority of black people I know never really could.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  White, People, Optimism

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It seems very obvious that a vast majority of the American people are sick and tired of political correctness and prevailing partisanship that does not serve the American people or freedom well.

  James Robison

  Tired, People, Sick

  Source: stream.org

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• Based on current surveys of public opinion in the United States, it turns out that the majority of Americans think I've done a pretty good job.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Thinking, United States

  "2016 Press Conference with President Barack Obama". awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. November 17, 2016.

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• In some states, a very small number of states, it is illegal to discriminate against someone on the basis of their gender identity, transgender identification. In the vast majority, it is perfectly legal.

  Allyson Robinson

  Small Numbers, Identity, Transgender

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• I think if you look at the statistics and you deal with fake media - and fake media and distorted media is a continuum - the vast majority of the population says, "I don't know what to believe." There are no checks and balances in quality control.

  Ray Dalio

  Believe, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The focus on creativity and independence exists in pockets of resistance in the educational system, which, to thrive, should be integrated with the needs and concerns of the great majority of the population. One finds them everywhere.

  Noam Chomsky

  Educational, Creativity, Focus

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example.

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, Majority Rule, Democracy

  Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

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• The federal government and our democracy is not a speedboat. It's an oceanliner, as I discovered when I came into office. It took a lot of really hard work for us to make significant policy changes, even in our first two years, when we had larger majorities than Mr. Trump will enjoy when he comes into office.

  Barack Obama

  Hard Work, Government, Years

  "President Barack Obama Holds a News Conference". ye.usembassy.gov. November 14, 2016.

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• The majority of Western culture came out of Europe, which is not comparable to America. It came out of nation states based on geographical and ethnic foundations. America is based on principles, a very different kind of country.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Country, Europe, America

  Source: thestagblog.com

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• We all know of the dangers and inequities of the traditional digital divide: People who have good access tocomputer networks have a distinct advantage - in terms of both life opportunities and quality of life, I wouldargue - over the vast majority of the world's population that does not yet have good access to computernetworks. The "other" digital divide points to an increasingly unstable situation that has developed inlibrarianship as digital libraries have evolved and matured.

  Tom Peters

  Opportunity, People, Library

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• Higher minimum wages, full-employment programs, early-childhood education: Those kinds of programs are, by design, universal, but by definition, because they are helping folks who are in the worst economic situations, are most likely to disproportionately impact and benefit African Americans. They also have the benefit of being sellable to a majority of the body politic.

  Barack Obama

  Impact, Design, Childhood

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• As a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said that as a consequence of historic wrongs, we are now going to take a big chunk of the nation's resources over a long period of time to make that right.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Long, Population

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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