Bryan Konietzko Quotes

I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.

There is no question that the minority party always makes a sport of going after the governor.

When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

The minority yields to the majority!

Our Constitution does not profess to have been established simply by the majority, but by 'the people' - the minority as much as the majority.

Demographically speaking, young white people are not in the majority in this country; they're in the minority. My question is, if they're not the majority anymore, then what happens? How do things change? Or do they change at all?

There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person was born into a world that had a third as many people as the world does today. The population has tripled in the past 85 years.

They divided the city into three electoral wards, and in one ward there was 70 percent of the people, the Catholic population, and they elected eight representatives to the city council.

We shouldn't deny the right of the minority to filibuster, but we need to do a much better job of making them own it. That way, the American people could figure out who is being obstructionist and who is willing to compromise.

When I was born, there were three billion people on the planet.

We will govern as if we had a majority. You simply carry on with your agenda.

Minority parties don’t have to be responsible and have policies. Their job is to throw rocks. If they put forth policies they lose whatever advantage that they can have as then they too will be attacked.

When a respectable minority objects to any rule of conduct, it would be dignified for the majority ... to yield.... Numerical strength savors of violence when it acts in total disregard of any strongly felt opinion of the minority.

If a majority be united by a common interest, the rights of the minority will be insecure.

A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.

Eliminating the filibuster would eliminate the people’s voices in the Senate.

The majority is not society, is not everyone. Majority coercion over the minority is still coercion.

While it's true that women are the minority in most tech companies, I don't think that inhibits entry into the tech space. My motto has always been, 'Live What You Love,' and as such, I think it's incredibly important to do work you believe in and to work for a company that has values that align with your own, be it in tech or another industry.

If you're in the Senate and in the minority, you just get to give speeches and run around and raise money. If you're in the majority, you're under attack from the press every day.

In theory, the filibuster helps whichever party is in the minority in the Senate. In practice, it is the Republicans who have disproportionately used it to engage in cynical and anti-democratic obstructionism whenever they find themselves in the minority.

I have worked with President Trump for two years and he is not a racist. He is a compassionate man whose policies have focused on the minority community.

The fact that I'm able to portray these complex, fully realized, queer Asian characters? I never thought it would be in this position. You just never see those types of characters and that type of representation.

Most of my time as a legislator, I served in the minority. So I'm used to getting the heel of a loaf of bread.

Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?

We're up at almost seven billion people on the planet and most of that growth has been in the developing world.