“Our job is going to be to hold Donald Trump and the Republican majority accountable.” JobsTrumpRepublicanMajority Author:Charles Schumer
“My take is this. The Republicans control the Senate. They have the majority of the House, and they have the White House. They can do whatever they want to do, really.” WantHouseCan DoWhiteRepublicanMajorityWhite HouseSenate Author:Maxine Waters
“I think, from a progressive point of view, to have a Democratic Congress and a Democratic White House, and to have spent the time on Obamacare, which had real benefits, 20 million insured, but not on inequality, was a major cost to the Democratic Party, costing them their majorities, but also a bit of a cost to the country, because it didn't address the fundamental issues that led to Donald Trump and that led to a lot of unhappiness, just the continued widening inequality.” ThinkingRealCountryHouseBitsWhiteViewsPartyMillionsIssuesTrumpCostBenefitsMajorsFundamentalsMajorityDemocraticCongressPoint Of ViewInequalityAddressesUnhappinessWhite HouseProgressiveDemocratic PartyObamacare Author:David Brooks
“We would take the same position as the majority of the world about this, including this issue where Prime Minister [Ariel] Sharon made a commitment to pull Israeli troops out of Gaza.” WorldMadeIssuesPositionCommitmentMajorityIncludingMinistersPrimeTroopsPrime MinisterIsraeliGazaArielSharon Author:Thabo Mbeki
“Making a movie about one group of people isolates the larger majority. That's what I require of the projects that I'm involved with. I would not ever make a movie strictly for Latinos.” PeopleGroupsInvolvedProjectsMajorityLatino Author:George Lopez
“When [my father] reached his majority, he was the head of the family. Everybody depended upon him. He went into a very uptight appearance; he would wear Chesterfield coats to work, Homburg hats, really getting into the whole thing. He knew people like Oscar Levant. He loved New York. He wanted to live there.” PeopleWholeWantedFatherNew YorkMajorityAppearanceHatsOscarsCoatsUptight Author:Paul Laffoley
“The worst experience any majority can have is that you convene and you look around and nothing's ready to go.” LooksWorstReadyMajority Author:Mitch McConnell
“Our most important allies in the fight against ISIL are the vast majority of Muslims who reject its apocalyptic ideology of hatred.” ImportantFightingHatredMajorityIdeologyRejectsAlliesApocalypticIsil Author:Lindsey Graham
“You listen to all the [Barack] Obama intelligence officials all saying ISIS will infiltrate that [immigrants] population. We have so many majority-Muslim countries that are not impacted, but the media insists on calling this a Muslim ban.” CountryMediaCallingMajorityPopulationBarackOfficialsImmigrantsIsisBans Author:Sean Hannity
“How do you think we have the home mortgage deduction? We have it because way back when it was determined that the American dream equaled home ownership. And everybody knows that the vast majority of the American people will never be able to write a check for a house. You have to finance it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWritingHomeDreamAbleHouseMajorityDeterminedChecksFinanceAmerican DreamOwnershipMortgageBack WhenDeductionsHome OwnershipWay Back WhenHome Mortgage Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Our tax plan by the way shows the vast, vast majority of Americans, upwards of 96 percent can fill out their taxes on a postcard.” WayShowsPlansTaxesPercentMajorityPostcards Author:Paul Ryan
“Remember the vast majority of the Democrats as well as all the Republicans in the House of Representatives in Louisiana voted for my signature-piece of legislation in the house which was a bill, actually a bill for true civil rights. That there must be no discrimination against anyone on the basis of race in affirmative-action.” WellsActionRememberHouseRacePiecesRightsRepublicanBasesBillsMajorityDemocratDiscriminationCivil RightsRepresentativesLegislationSignaturesLouisianaAffirmative ActionAffirmativeHouse Of Representatives Author:David Duke
“I came across an old story of mine that I'd written a decade ago. The main joke of the story is that a mother is telling her children about how she met their father online. The majority of memories the mother has all have to do with really funny links he sent her, a music download that she loved, etc. - and because of these superficial details she fell in love with the father. Reading it today, it's hardly a dystopian story; it's simply a realistic story about how people actually meet.” PeopleChildrenStoriesTodayMotherReadingFatherMemoriesWrittenMinesMetsJokesMajorityDetailsDecadesEtcOnlineLinksRealisticSuperficialDystopianDownloads Author:Alexander Weinstein
“[Students] are exposed to many things the majority of their teachers didn't encounter until much later in their growing up years.” YearsGrowing UpTeacherGrowingStudentsMajorityEncountersExposed Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson
“It is almost impossible to open a newspaper without reading something about the London housing market. House prices are rising at such a rate that the vast majority of Londoners can't afford to buy, are being forced out of the boroughs they grew up in, or in the worst cases, are being made homeless. If nothing is done, people will continue to be driven out of the city and London will cease to be a hub for creativity and entrepreneurship.” PeopleIfsMadeDoneReadingHouseCitiesCreativityCasesImpossibleWorstGrewGrew UpMajorityRateLondonDrivenNewspapersCeaseEntrepreneurshipRisingHomelessHousingHubLondonersHousing MarketHouse Prices Author:David Lammy
“Jewish voters care. They want someone who's good on Israel and who's good on Jewish issues. But they also want somebody who's going to be pro-choice and pro-gun control and pro-gay rights. To the vast majority of the Jewish community, just being good on Israel or on Jewish issues is not enough.” WantEnoughCareChoicesCommunityIssuesRightsGayGunMajorityIsraelBe GoodVotersJust BeingGun ControlGay RightsPro GunJewish CommunityPro Gun ControlPro Gay Author:Charles Schumer
“Capitalism has created a situation called scarcity. And that scarcity is not natural, it's socially induced. Along with that sense of scarcity, or feeling of scarcity, is a feeling of economic insecurity. Along with that is a feeling of deprivation... And unless we can demonstrate that that feeling is not justified technologically, we will not be able to speak intelligently to the great majority of people and reorganize our economy so that we really know what needs are rational and human and what have been created, almost fetishisticaly, by the capitalist economy.” PeopleKnowsNeedsHumansHas BeensFeelingsAbleSpeakNaturalSituationEconomyEconomicCapitalismMajorityRationalInsecurityCapitalistJustifiedScarcityDeprivationCapitalist Economy Author:Murray Bookchin
“Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right.” MindSeemsNamesViewsMoralPolicyMajorityAriseControversyPublic Policy Author:Edward Kennedy
“I've been winning with 70 percent of the vote, and if you look at my district, you know it's a majority Christian district, and yet we've still been winning with high margins, so I don't feel like I've had any disadvantages for being a minority.” IfsKnowsFeelsLooksStillsChristianWinningPercentVoteMajorityMinoritiesMarginsDisadvantages Author:Keith Ellison
“The real number of the US' obligations, unfunded obligations that we're passing on to our future generates is more like $70 trillion to $75 trillion. The vast majority of that is health entitlements - Medicare, Obamacare, Medicaid. There's also Social Security, interest on the debt. But fundamentally, health entitlements are the thing that will bankrupt our kids. We need to fix that for the long-term.” NeedsLongRealKidsSocialTermInterestNumbersSecurityMajorityDebtObligationPassingPassingsLong TermOur FutureSocial SecurityEntitlementObamacareMedicareMedicaidPassing On Author:Benjamin E. Sasse
“Time is of the essence, particularly if we're sending images out on social media. The reality is that the majority of images are only viewed for a few seconds, often on a phone or computer. There are so many images freely available that it takes a lot of will power to concentrate and prolong the gaze on one picture at the expense of the thousands of others waiting to be viewed!” IfsRealitySocialWaitingMediaComputerEssenceMajorityPhonesAvailableSocial MediaExpensesSecondsWill Power Author:Michael Kenna
“The share of wealth held by the minority is much greater than the share held by the majority. We have to draw our own conclusions from that and it has to change.” WealthGreaterShareDrawsMajorityConclusionMinorities Author:Martin Schulz
“As a matter of fact the majority of the Muslims living in our society are moderate people. But don't make the mistake that even though there are moderate and radical Muslims that there is a moderate or a radical Islam.” PeopleMatterFactsMistakeMajorityIslamRadicalOur SocietyModeratesMatter Of FactRadical Islam Author:Geert Wilders
“40, 50 years ago, Americans - the majority of Americans did not want to accept these Vietnamese refugees who they saw as completely foreign. Now there are new foreigners - Syrians and other people from the Middle East, people of Muslim backgrounds. And the sense among many Americans is, well, these people are completely different from us, and they're not like the Vietnamese who are much more assimilable. And I think that's very, very doubtful. I think that the majority of these new foreigners, if given the opportunity, will be able to assimilate and deal with American culture.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantYearsWellsDifferentAbleCultureOpportunityGivenDealsAcceptingSawsMiddleYears AgoMajorityEastBackgroundsMiddle EastRefugeeAmerican CultureForeignersDoubtfulVietnameseVietnamese Refugees Author:Nguyen Viet Thang
“Since the beginning of the crisis, since the terrorists started to control some areas within Syria, the majority of the Syrian civilians left that areas to join the government areas, not vice versa. If the majority of the Syrians don't trust the government, they should go the other way.” IfsWayShouldGovernmentLeftAreasCrisisMajorityVicesTerroristSyriaCiviliansVice VersaDon't Trust Author:Bashar al-Assad
“I've spent the majority of my life estranged from either one or both of my parents, and I've really had a lot of time to break down all the reasons why. There was something buried inside of me that said, I've got to kind of unravel the reasons why I don't talk to them; why not just one, but both of my parents and I have these really messed up relationships. And why I've been so fractured all these years. I got to the point where I thought, I was not the best kid. I openly admit that. But then I realized it doesn't matter. I was a kid!” YearsKindSaidMatterReasonKidsParentBreakMajorityI RealizedReason WhyJust OneWhy NotBuriedBreaking DownMessed Up Author:Jason Diamond
“People always like to have a good time and laugh, and, [among] the vast majority of the seven billion people on this earth, one thing that we all have in common is at some point we all need to pair up and find some sort of significant other, some sort of romantic counterpart.” PeopleNeedsEarthCommonLaughingOne ThingMajoritySevenBillionsSignificantGood TimesPairsHaving A Good TimeCounterpartsSignificant Other Author:Jay Baruchel
“If you're a so-called minority writer, the temptation is to write for the majority... I refuse to do that.” IfsWritingMajorityRefuseTemptationMinorities Author:Nguyen Viet Thang
“Writers from the majority can assume their audiences know what they're talking about - they don't have to explain things, whereas minority writers are expected to.” KnowsTalkingAudienceMajorityAssumingExpectedMinorities Author:Nguyen Viet Thang
“Like morality, literature needs to be universal. So that the writer must put himself on the side of the majority, of the two billion starving, if he wishes to be able to speak to all and be read by all. Failing that, he is at the service of a privileged class and, like it, an exploiter.” IfsNeedsTwoAbleLiteratureSpeakWishSidesClassFailingMoralityUniversalMajorityBillionsPrivilegedStarving Author:Jean-Paul Sartre
“The term "state socialism" is not precise. Under this term many understand an order under which a certain part of the wealth, sometimes a quite considerable part, passes into state ownership or under its control while in the great majority of cases the ownership of plants, factories, and land, remains in private hands.” SometimesStatesHandsCertainOrderTermWealthCasesLandRemainsMajorityPlantSocialismFactoriesOwnershipPrecise Author:Joseph Stalin
“Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness.” LawEternalFoundationMajorityRighteousnessJustified Author:Amity Shlaes
“It doesn't matter who the candidates are. It doesn't matter the campaign. You know that's gonna happen. The Washington Post is gonna do it, the New York Times is gonna do it, the three networks gonna do it, CNN's gonna do it, MSNBC gonna do it, all the newspapers are gonna do it. For the vast majority of them. There are some exceptions. That sameness ends up being its own authority. If everywhere you look in the media tells you the same thing, you don't have to research.” IfsKnowsLooksEndsMatterHappensThreeMediaNew YorkAuthorityResearchMajorityCampaignsNewspapersPostsCandidatesExceptionNew York TimesCnnSameness Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Losing the PR battles, particularly about healthcare, translated into losing his Democratic majorities in Congress, beginning with a Republican landslide in the midterm election of 2010.” RepublicanBattleLosingElectionMajorityDemocraticCongressHealthcareLandslidesMidtermsMidterm Elections Author:Barack Obama
“In the first two years, when I had a strong majority in the House and the Senate, we were as productive as any administration has been since the '60s. I mean, we got a lot done.” YearsFirstsMeanHas BeensTwoDoneHouseStrongMajorityAdministrationProductiveTwo YearsSenate Author:Barack Obama
“To sustain a governing majority, that requires an ability for Republicans and Democrats to find some common ground. And right now, the structure of the system is such where it makes it really hard for people to work together.” PeopleHardTogetherAbilityCommonRepublicanRight NowMajorityStructureDemocratWorking TogetherGoverningCommon Ground Author:Barack Obama
“I think we've set the bar with respect to the notion that it is possible to provide health care for people. Now I know that the incoming Congress and administration talks about repealing it. But we've set a bar that shows that this can be done. And that core principle is one that the majority of Americans, including supporters of Donald Trump believe in.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBelieveDoneShowsCarePrinciplesTrumpMajorityNotionIncludingCongressCoreBarsAdministrationHealth CareSupporterRepealing Author:Barack Obama
“I don't like what's going on in Iraq, naturally. I'm part of a large majority of people who don't, but I do not know the whole story. I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it's hard for me to discern. I don't like what it's doing to the world.” PeopleKnowsWorldBelieveHardWholeStoriesI BelieveTelevisionMajorityIraqPercentages Author:Al Pacino
“If [the Conservatives] lose, we say, "Okay, we gotta change. We gotta improve, come back and win the next election." They [leftists] don't. When they lose and even when they win, because they know that they're in a numerical minority. But that numerical minority is a vast majority of pop culture and education environments. And so they just bully their way.” IfsKnowsWayCultureNextWinningLosesEnvironmentOkayElectionMajorityPopsMinoritiesBullyPop CultureLeftistsCulture And Education Author:Rush Limbaugh
“[Radical leftist] are never been a majority. We just fell for one of the greatest illusions in modern politics.” ModernIllusionMajorityRadicalLeftistsModern Politics Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We can't have close to 90 percent of those prenatally diagnosed with an intellectual disability being aborted; 90 percent not going to school; more than 90 percent reporting discrimination in the healthcare system; and 90 percent unemployed, and tell ourselves that we're doing a good job. The obstacles to leading a full life for the vast majority of people with intellectual disabilities are far beyond what they should be, and far beyond what we should tolerate. So yeah, I want change.” PeopleWantShouldSchoolJobsIntellectualPercentYeahMajorityObstaclesDiscriminationDisabilityHealthcareTolerateGood JobUnemployedFull LifeIntellectual Disability Author:Timothy Shriver
“I don't think that the media is ever going to be on the same stage with Donald Trump. I don't think the majority of them are ever gonna be even in the same universe. They live in two separate worlds, and they don't understand Trump's, and they have contempt for it.” ThinkingWorldTwoUniverseStageMediaTrumpMajorityContempt Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The people that voted for Donald Trump, the vast majority of them really thought that if Hillary Clinton won this election, that was it, that was America, say good-bye to it. She would have had the Supreme Court nominations for all the people retiring and a bunch of the left would have retired, and who knows who else. It would have been the ongoing opening up the country to outsiders and expanding the government to take care of outsiders, who are called immigrants.” PeopleIfsKnowsHas BeensCountryGovernmentCareAmericaLeftTrumpElectionMajorityCourtClintonTake CareSupremeBunchOpeningImmigrantsRetiringOutsidersSupreme CourtExpandingRetiredOngoingByeGood ByeNominationsOpening UpSaying Good Bye Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Kevin McCarthy, who is the House majority leader, was pretty open. He went out and recruited candidates. And the Republicans in the House have paid a price for it ever since, because they cannot pass anything comprehensive or real because of the Freedom Caucus, which is the child, the product, the progeny of the Tea Party.” ChildrenRealHousePartyLeaderProductsRepublicanPaidMajorityTeaCandidatesComprehensiveTea PartyKevinCaucusProgenyMajority Leader Author:Mark Shields
“Trump is popular, Trump is big precisely because Republican voters are angry at establishment Republicans. And establishment Republicans keep giving these people reason to be mad by continuing to insult them, and by appearing to agree with Democrats on key issues a majority of Americans disagree with, from amnesty to whatever, economics, Obamacare, take your pick.” PeopleGivingReasonBigsIssuesKeysTrumpRepublicanPicksEconomicsAgreeAngryMadMajorityDemocratInsultVotersDisagreeEstablishmentContinuingObamacareAppearingAmnesty Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There is, unfortunately, too large a number of people who are just outright bigots in America. They're nowhere near a majority. They're a small number. But there are people who are in the Alt-Right who are just straight up bigots.” PeopleAmericaNumbersMajorityBigotsSmall NumbersStraight Up Author:Van Jones
“Setting aside labels, I am somebody who believes that government in a democratic society should be representing the needs of the vast majority of the people who are middle-class and working families.” PeopleNeedsShouldBelieveGovernmentClassMiddleMajorityDemocraticSettingSettingsLabelsMiddle ClassRepresentingDemocratic Society Author:Bernie Sanders
“I try my best to eat healthy the majority of the time so that I feel good and have more energy. I am so passionate about eating healthily, I am actually certified in nutrition. I try my best to eat organic whenever possible, but it's important not to be too strict about it. Just do the best you can.” FeelsTryingImportantEnergyHealthyEatingMajorityPassionateFeel GoodNutritionStrictDo The BestI Feel Good Author:Miranda Kerr
“The truth is lots of films are made, the majority of which are terrible.” MadeFilmTerribleTruth IsMajority Author:Dominic Cooper
“I feel like we have to have [plus size models] as soon as possible. We're the norm. We're the majority.” FeelsModelsMajoritySizePlusNormPlus SizePlus Size Models Author:Ashley Graham