“I knew Arizona's SB 1070 would be controversial when I introduced it, but I did not expect the national immigration debate to revolve around a state law. While the anti-American open-borders Left attack me and the law as 'racist,' 'nativist' and their other empty smear words, the vast majority of the people of Arizona and America support the law.” PeopleStatesWould BeAmericaLawLeftSupportEmptyMajorityDebateImmigrationBordersRacistControversialArizonaAnti-american Author:Russell Pearce
“A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.” PeopleDoeFormLeftOpinionPrinciplesImpossibleMajorityChecksLimitationPermanentMinoritiesRejectsSentimentsAnarchyArrangementsSovereignRestraintDeliberateDespotismRejectingPopular OpinionUnanimity Book:Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46 Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46
“We [on the left] have to be used to being a minority -- a small minority -- for some time to come. The odd thing is that the right, even when it is in power, likes to think of itself as an embattled minority against this elite that somehow runs everything. Whereas the left, even when it has no power at all, likes to imagine it somehow represents the majority of people. These are mirror-image delusions.” PeopleThinkingRunningUsedLeftImagineMirrorsMajorityLikesOddMinoritiesDelusionElitesOdd ThingsMirror Image Author:Barbara Ehrenreich
“With Republicans in control of the Senate for the first time since Barack Obama took office, the president may find it harder to appoint left-wing lawyers to judgeships. Whether he compromises on some of his nominees, including any to the Supreme Court, may depend on the willingness of the new Republican majority to engage the president on judicial philosophy.” FirstsMayPhilosophyLeftPresidentDependsRepublicanOfficeFirst TimeHarderMajorityCourtWingsIncludingLawyerSupremeCompromiseBarackWillingnessSenateSupreme CourtNotableJudicialLeft Wing Author:Terry Eastland
“The most active people in the country know different things, and because each one tends to hear mostly and deal mostly with people with whom they agree, they are reinforced not simply in the conviction that they are right, which is totally appropriate, but that they are the majority. So you have both sides, the Left and the Right, thinking that the majority of the country is really with them.” PeopleThinkingKnowsDifferentCountryLeftSidesDealsAgreeMajorityConvictionActiveAppropriateDifferent ThingsBoth Sides Author:Barney Frank