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“Even after the whole democratization process, it's quite clear that the United States are not seen in a positive way in all the Muslim-majority countries - in Egypt, in Libya, even in Tunisia - even though we have now a kind of trying to be recognized as democrats by the Islamists who are running, you know, Tunisia and Egypt. But the popular sentiment is very, very negative.”

Knows Way Trying Kind Country States Whole Running Process United United States Clear Negative Majority Democrat Sentiments Egypt Libya Islamists Democratization Tunisia

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“Populism is everywhere. We have religious populism in the Muslim-majority countries as much as we have populism in the United States of America.”

Country States America Religious United United States Majority United States Of America Populism

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“In the Muslim-majority countries you can't do without Islam, we can't do without their culture, in which way they are going to come back to this Islamic reference to find a way to deal with the true challenges and not the superficial political questions.”

Way Country Political Culture Challenges Deals Majority Islam Islamic Superficial

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“As Muslims, our interests are our values. In any society, be it in Western or Muslim-majority countries, our duty is that of critical loyalty: Staying loyal to our countries by always being critically engaged in the name of the principles of justice, equality and human brotherhood. We should be the ethical and moral voice wherever we are by saying that, even though we understand economic and geo-strategic interests, we cannot accept a violation of these principles by any society.”

“I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that's where the majority of the citizens are and that's where the engine of of development has to be found.”

Thinking Whole Turns Found Development Citizens Areas Majority Engines Nigeria Rural Areas

Author:Chinua Achebe

“Bolivia is in the lead internationally in talking about the threat of environmental catastrophe. It's generally true where there are indigenous populations, there are important things happening; where the indigenous populations have been marginalized or exterminated, things go to a disaster. This is true worldwide, and Bolivia is striking because it's a majority population and in the lead.”

Has Beens Important Talking Happenings Important Things Majority Threat Environmental Population Disaster Things Happen Catastrophe Indigenous Marginalized Bolivia

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The large majority of faith-based people are decent, fair-minded people. We should not characterize people of faith as the adversaries of GLBT equality.”

People Should Fairs Majority Decent Adversaries Faith Based Glbt

Author:George Takei

“Trump is not presidential: this is not normal, it cannot be treated as normal. We have to fight with our last breath to make sure that the vision for the country that this racist white nationalist Bannon has cannot be achieved in this country. We are a country that, whether he likes it or not, is about to become the first nation in the world that is majority minorities.”

World Firsts Country Lasts Fighting Nations White Vision Trump Normal Breaths Majority Likes Treated Presidential Minorities Racist

Author:Reza Aslan

“The paradox in China is that while some things change very rapidly, others don't. The appearance of its cities may be entirely different, but the inner workings behind these changes still persist: the regulation of society, the hierarchies of power, the relationship of the individual to the majority.”

May Stills Different Individual Cities Behinds Majority Appearance China Paradox Regulation Persist Things Change Hierarchy

Author:Sze Tsung Leong

“In one era the majority puts its faith and sympathy with the bullfighter, in another with the bull.”

Majority Eras Bulls

Author:Bette Ford

“A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.”

Want Children Poor Percent Areas Majority Population Abortion Minorities Clinic

Author:Alveda King

“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.”

Literature Majority Sooner Or Later Crap Beaten Dean Charismatic

Book:Seize the Night: A Novel

Source: Seize the Night: A Novel

“I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.”

Thinking Stills Wanted Concerned Twenties Majority

Author:Adam Lambert

“The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.”

Trying Play Funny Marriage Husband Majority Witty Cynical Violin Violinist Orangutans

Author:Honore de Balzac

“The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.”

Doe Forget Truth Is Majority Gentleman Never Forget Ladies And Gentlemen

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Is it a coincidence that in 1998, Barack Obama talks about a majority coalition of welfare recipients and in 2012 we got a record number of Americans on food stamps while he's president? I don't think it's a coincidence.”

Thinking President Numbers Records Majority Barack Welfare Coincidence Stamps Coalitions Food Stamps Welfare Recipients

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“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.”

People Needs Trying Self Levels Inspire Majority American Politics Starters

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Obama has now lost his trustworthiness. He has lost any hope of majority support from the American people for his agenda. Obamacare has wiped that out. It really has.”

People Lost Support Majority Agendas Obamacare Trustworthiness

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Obama just announced Americans don't consider themselves victims, or entitled. Actually, the vast majority of Obama supporters believe exactly that. They believe exactly that.”

Believe Victim Majority Entitled Supporter Obama Supporters

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”

“In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.”

May Rights Danger Respect Majority Minorities Republic

Book:Selected Writings of James Madison

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison

“There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.”

Needs Political Interest Liberty Opinion Standards Majority Currents Maxims Liable

Book:James Madison's

Source: James Madison's

“If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.”

Ifs Reason Liberty Ought Citizens Majority Patriotic Criteria Suffrage Philosophic

Author:James Madison

“I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.”

People Thinking Needs Stills War Majority British Sanguine

Author:John Major

“The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs. Hip-hop in a lot of ways is an outgrowth of a lack of instruments and a desire to play music, so we can't really fault the kids for that.”

Way Play Kids School Desire Band High School Program Instruments Majority Faults Hip Hop Hips Hops Public School

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it comes out and two reviews are published and it sells 12 copies.”

Two Book Care Late Majority Sells Copies Reviews No One Cares

Author:George R. R. Martin

“I get a sense that we've all been educated into one school of thought. I'm not surprised at all to find among the overwhelming majority of scientists, are people who would hold one particular view because that's all they're exposed to.”

People School Views Particular Scientist Majority Educated Overwhelming Exposed

Author:Thabo Mbeki

“After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.”

Needs Bigs Government Jobs Asks Leader Policy Majority Democratic Debt More Money Small Business Big Government New Job Government Policy Democratic Leaders

Author:Mitch McConnell

“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.”

Stills Jesus Alive Majority Followers One Time Apostles Apostle Paul

Author:Josh McDowell

“But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.”

Facts Leadership Support Republican Majority Sinn Fein

Author:Martin McGuinness

“It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.”

Literature Causes Sound Leader Majority Determined Rebellion Rebel Uprising

Author:H. L. Mencken

“What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.”

Men Action Belief Majority Inability

Author:John Stuart Mill

“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”

Thinking Mind Firsts Happiness Integrity Thirds Majority Rate Intelligence Minorities Second Rate Thinking Mind Mind Thinking

Author:A. A. Milne

“The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.”

Knows Men Facts Inspiring Female Majority Generous

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.”

Couple Originals Majority Adaptation Pointless Sweeping

Author:Alan Moore

“It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”

Men Life Inspirational Mind Doe Freedom Liberty Majority Historical Activism Setting Settings Minorities Keenness Majority And Minority Minority Government

Author:Samuel Adams

“A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration.”

War Country Majority Administration

Author:Michael Moore

“I think I'm in the majority of Americans. I believe that I am in the mainstream of middle America.”

Thinking Believe America I Believe Middle Majority Mainstream Middle America

Author:Michael Moore

“Now that I exist in the mainstream majority, I'm not really so controversial any more, am I? Not really news.”

News Majority Mainstream Controversial

Author:Michael Moore

“The days of using my name as a pejorative are now over. The right wing turned me into an accidental spokesperson for the liberal, majority agenda.”

Names Majority Wings Agendas Right Wing

Author:Michael Moore

“The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.”

Weapons Mass Madness Majority Distraction Fooled

Author:Michael Moore

“If anything, I don't have to convince the American public that we have a broken health-care system. I think the majority of Americans since they have to go through that health-care system, already know it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Care Broken Majority Health Care Convince Health Care System

Author:Michael Moore

“The vast majority of the guns in the U.S. are sold to white people who live in the suburbs or the country. When we fantasize about being mugged or home invaded, what's the image of the perpetrator in our heads? Is it the freckled-face kid from down the street - or is it someone who is, if not black, at least poor?”

People Ifs Country Home Kids Faces Black White Poor Streets Gun Majority Suburbs Perpetrators

Author:Michael Moore

“When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority of the country was not with them, did not believe in the basic principles of any of those philosophies.”

People Believe War Country Philosophy Principles Rights Movement Majority Civil Rights Liberation Vietnam Vietnam War Civil Rights Movement Basic Principles Civil Right Movement

Author:Michael Moore

“Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.”

Nations Majority Indigenous Excluded Bolivia

Author:Evo Morales

“Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city.”

Wealth Animal Cities Materials Hair Skins Majority Population Treated Indian Oppressed 1930s Excluded Raw Materials Bolivia Vermin Ddt

Author:Evo Morales

“Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.”

People Thinking Way Years Wells Interesting Quality Opinion Written Originals Majority Scripts Complaining Screenplays Well Written

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric.”

Years Mean Made States United United States Car Majority Electric Predictions Hybrid New Car Hybridity

Author:Elon Musk

“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.”

Helping Use Technology Approach Machines Majority Threat Alternatives Traveler Units Airports Concealed Passengers Screening Deployment Metallic Imaging

Author:Janet Napolitano

“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.”

Should Shows Religious Groups Members Organization Majority Tolerance Minorities Somewhere Else Denominations

Author:Russell M. Nelson

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