Minority

Minority Whip Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nevada) said calling witnesses would extend the trial out unnecessarily. They're talking about bringing Monica Lewinsky in. And what is the dispute Both sides agree the dispute is as to whether or not the president touched her, or what time the relationship started, ... We don't need to get into this. This is something the American people, and frankly the Senate, is sick of.

- Harry Reid Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future.

- Paul Hawken Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.

- Eugene Victor Debs Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

They're in the minority. They're on the fringe and we need to keep them there.

- Karen Aroesty Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If you are white, you most likely believe the system is fair. If you belong to a minority group, you most likely feel the opposite.

- Bill Clinton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We were trying to pull the Senate back from going over a precipice. We wanted to preserve the rights of the minority. ... It was a bipartisan effort.

- John McCain Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass.

- Emma Goldman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I believe all our students need positive role models, and especially minority students.

- Janice Kershaw Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We do not believe that a soft money ban will cripple minority voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.

- John Conyers Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities.

- Marvin Olasky Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I may be in the minority, but I think there's a strong possibility that we're very close to the lows for the rest of the year. If we get the cold weather like some are predicting, the commodity funds will favor the long side of the market as we close out the year.

- Phil Flynn Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.

- Abba Eban Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I know that Bush, for political reasons, is going to nominate a minority, a Hispanic man or someone where it will be harder for people on the progressive side to oppose and split some of the traditionally progressive or democratic constituents.

- Patricia Ireland Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes.

- David H. Donald Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater.

- Solomon Ortiz Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

- George Orwell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I'd be lying if I said there wasn't some of that, ... but it is clearly in the minority.

- Mike Bohn Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I understand we've got like a Bush subordinate in there now. That's unfortunate. But he's got a minority, right So we can get rid of him pretty soon.

- Neil Young Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

- Germaine Greer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There's no consensus on cutting the budget, solving the illegal immigration problem, tackling the looming meltdown of Medicare and Social Security or making a concerted effort to win the hearts of minority voters.

- Tony Snow Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Strong efforts have been made in Ohio to curb the authoritarianism of our Secretary of State, Kenneth Blackwell, as he has purged people from lists in our State in particular precincts where voters are heavily minority.

- Marcy Kaptur Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Any major change to convention regulations requires a three-fourths vote. Japan has a quarter block over the minority on most issues. That creates an uphill hurdle when it comes to increasing or decreasing protection for whales.

- Karen Steuer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

That doesn't mean there are no efforts to influence the minority parties, but the principal efforts almost always involve the party in power, the party or the individuals from that party who can deliver results.

- Fred Wertheimer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes