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“You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state.”

Thinking Knows Giving Trying Ends States Conflict Majority Israel Get Away Palestinian Negotiation Assembly Negotiating Detours General Assembly

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat.”

Ifs Problem Individual Strong Mistake Impossible Team Beats Majority Disappointment Collections Units Personal Life Inspirational Team Strong Minded

Author:Gary Neville

“When the American people elected Barack Obama and large Democrat majorities, the die was cast. ObamaCare was coming. Popular or not, constitutional or not, affordable or not, it didn't matter.”

People Matter Dies Majority Democrat Casts Barack Obamacare Affordable

Author:Bob Beauprez

“Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.”

Asks Support Fellows Majority Silent Tonight Silent Majority

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not.”

Feels Doe Made America Majority Minorities Isolated

Author:Glenn Beck

“It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.”

Might Values Politics Constitution Majority Passing Passings Compromise Amendments Framers

Author:Sandra Day O'Connor

“The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.”

Knows Has Beens Country States United United States Majority

Author:Barack Obama

“What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.”

Country Government Taxes Percent Paid Majority Oil Accepted Producers Fairness

Author:Olusegun Obasanjo

“Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.”

May Doe Economy Majority Advertising Editors Fewer

Book:Confessions of an advertising man

Source: Confessions of an advertising man

“The most important loan to pay is your student loan. It's more important than your mortgage, car and credit card payments. You cannot discharge student loan debt in the majority of cases.”

Important Pay Cases Car Students Majority Credit Debt Cards Loan Payment Mortgage Credit Card Discharge Student Loan

Author:Suze Orman

“Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants - despite the Coast Guard's determination that $5.4 billion is needed over 10 years.”

Years Lasts Millions Five Security Needed Determination Majority Congress Billions Despite Administration Five Years Grants Coast Port Last Five Years Coast Guard

Author:Solomon Ortiz

“I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble.”

People World Way Should Trying Quality Too Much Trouble Majority Reputation Decent Acquire Remarkable Fairness Decency Navigate

Author:Michael Palin

“Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.”

Way Majority Mediocrity Fangs Approved

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.”

Support Majority Aids Foreign Aid

Author:Rand Paul

“The majority of people who join law enforcement are doing it for good, moral reasons, but then there are the few who get through, where you go, 'Whoa, hold on a second. What's this guy doing here?'”

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Author:Guy Pearce

“Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.”

People Should Values Moral Majority Priorities Budgets Documents Funding

Author:Mike Pence

“All we're getting from the Democratic majority in Congress and from this White House is more bailouts, more spending, more planned stimulus, more deficits and debt, and the American people have had it.”

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Author:Mike Pence

“I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.”

Looks Wanted Self Esteem Proud Models Majority Magazines Independent Women

Author:Adele

“One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.”

Rights Objects Constitution Majority Minorities

Author:James K. Polk

“Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life.”

People Thinking Way Belief Views Majority Leftists

Author:Dennis Prager

“Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).”

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness

“But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.”

Knows Should Believe Reason Certain Belief Principles Groups Majority Don't Believe Surrender Reason Why No Reason

Author:Pat Robertson

“I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.”

Thinking Knows Has Beens States America United United States Willing Judging Vote Majority Democrat Senators United States Of America Confirmation Catering

Author:Pat Robertson

“On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking.”

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Author:Kid Rock

“Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.”

Strong Fashion Female Dresses Majority Feminine Just Being Lipstick Chic Wearing A Dress

Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“Like the vast majority of my constituents, I continue to be concerned about record profits reported by petroleum companies at a time when consumers are paying record high prices for gasoline.”

Company Records Concerned Majority Profit Consumers Constituents Gasoline High Prices Petroleum

Author:Mike Rogers

“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.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.”

Wish Marriage Gay Prejudice Majority Definitions Like Me Traditional Preserves Intolerance Bias

Author:Mitt Romney

“The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.”

Two Humor Quality Majority Proportion Sense Of Humor Overwhelming Possessed Great Qualities

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1933, Volume 2

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1933, Volume 2

“It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.”

Action Political Politics United Majority Organized Minorities Unnatural Majority Rule

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.”

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Author:Karl Rove

“Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.”

Believe Humans Heart States America Nations United United States Majority United States Of America Human History

Author:Marco Rubio

“So the majority of Americans are conservatives. They believe in things like the Constitution. I know that's weird to some people but they believe in it.”

People Knows Believe Constitution Majority

Author:Marco Rubio

“The vast majority of the American people are hard-working taxpayers who take responsibility for their families, go to work every day, they pay their mortgage on time, they volunteer in the community.”

People Hard Community Pay Responsibility Hard Work Majority Volunteer Taking Responsibility Taxpayers Mortgage

Author:Marco Rubio

“It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.”

Doe Literature Prove Majority

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.”

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Author:Friedrich Schiller

“The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.”

Said Done Wisdom Wise Fool Opposites Majority

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Palestinians don't really believe in a state of Israel. They, unlike a majority of Israelis, who have come to the conclusion that they can live with a two-state solution to be determined by the parties, the majority of Palestinians are still very reluctant, and they need to be pushed to get there.”

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Author:Charles Schumer

“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.”

Want Should Two States Facts Accepting Willing Majority Structure Palestinian Negotiation Jordan

Author:Charles Schumer

“We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.”

Attitude Majority Positive Attitude Submit Compelled Posture Subjection

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.”

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Author:Judy Biggert

“Realizing that the majority of kids that get molested feel that it is their fault, along with shame, those kids have no idea what to say or do to try to report anything, and add that with the lack of education, it is a complete recipe for disaster that leads to non-reporting of molestation.”

Feels Trying Ideas Kids Realizing Shame Majority Add Faults Disaster No Idea Reports Recipes Lack Of Education Molestation

Author:Sherri Shepherd

“I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.”

Thinking Done Jobs Majority Satisfied Good Job

Author:Paul Simon

“Any parent who tells their kids that they can't attend a school play or go to a soccer match because they have to work is kidding themselves. It's OK to miss a game or two or a performance here and there, but it's not all right to miss the majority of them.”

Two Play Kids School Games Parent Missing Performances Majority Soccer Here And There School Plays

Author:Simon Sinek

“But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives.”

Thinking Majority Miserable Chickens Cows Pigs Miserable Life

Author:Peter Singer

“Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have their 'Giving Pledge,' where billionaires promise to give away the majority of their wealth when they die. My Social Security Pledge is better - to give money to good causes when you are alive. Besides, more Americans can participate.”

Giving Dies Social Causes Wealth Alive Security Promise Bills Majority Gates Social Security Pledge Billionaire Good Causes Buffett

Author:Mark Skousen

“Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.”

“This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.”

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Author:Louise Slaughter

“If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray.”

Ifs Church Records Majority Twelve Apostles

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.”

Mean Time Politics Decision Blood Speech Majority Iron Great Day

Author:Otto von Bismarck

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