Donald Trump Quotes

The great silent majority.

The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes.

The silent majority, that's actually an invention of Richard Nixon's.

People don't give a damn what the average Senator or Congressman says. The reason they don't care is that they know that what you hear in Congress is 99 per cent tripe, ignorance and demagoguery and not to be relied on.

I have always been in the minority, even when I was in the majority.

If they're not voting, we're not touching their heads and hearts.

The majority voice should be controlling ... after a full, fair, and candid expression.

People don't really like anyone. It is the crisis of our young democracy

I tried to read in the faces of the thousands what was in their minds this Easter day. But their faces looked blank. Obviously they do not like the war, but they will do what they’re told. Die, for instance.

When I cease to harmonize with the majority ... I feel that I ought no longer to hold that respectable position [Senate Commerce Committee chairman.]

For evil to take place, the acts of a few people are not sufficient; the great majority also has to remain indifferent.

Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, discovery of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a majority of the electorate in western democracies.

Wherever the sentiment of the majority is still genuine and intense, it is found to have abated little of its claim to be obeyed.

Since last year, our politics have become very anxiety-ridden, and President Xi is facing passive resistance across the country. There is widespread inaction from local elites and local governments. Nobody opposes, but nobody does anything.

Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now.

There are many Republicans who hardly even know a Democrat. And there are just as many, if not more, Democrats who don't know a Republican.

The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.

Everywhere, you have a fatigue for reform... that's very serious.

The silent voter, interestingly, has always been the voter for AAP.

Part of the reason people don't talk about their loneliness is that they feel they will be judged for it.

I was born and brought up in south east London and been very conscious for a long time that people feel politics happens to them and not with them.

I was politically complacent during the Blair years. Things were good and people thought things would be good forever.

People who feel alienated have little trust in the institutions of our society. This adds to the wider sense of disaffection and makes it more difficult for our politics to work.

I do think that inside of country music now there's a very silent majority, and I represent that silent majority.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.