Political Minority Quotes

There is a small group of 'Never Trump' conservatives. But it is a small group, and I've actually been surprised that there are not more of us. There's enough of us for a dinner party, not a political party. I wish there were more.

Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly they make minor adjustments to the bigger bill.

Muslim Americans in general tend to be an underrepresented political group.

Once the minority of House and Senate are comfortable in their minority status, they will have no problem socializing with the Republicans. Any farmer will tell you that certain animals run around and are unpleasant, but when they've been fixed, then they are happy and sedate. They are contented and cheerful. They don't go around peeing on the furniture and such.

Democrats may be in the minority in Congress, but we speak for the majority of Americans.

How can we even call this a Democracy when the House, the Senate, the White House, and now the Supreme Court are all controlled by the representatives of a minority group in America?

Polls consistently show that the majority of Americans favour research using embryonic stem cells and yet politicians continue to pander to the outspoken religious minority that is hampering efforts to develop this potentially valuable technology.

Any well-established village in New England or the Northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

There are too many Republicans that believe it, too. And is it any wonder that they have acted on occasion like defeated, hopeless waifs? I mean, they read and absorb everything the Drive-By Media says, and they believe it, too. And of course the Drive-By Media is routinely making fun of them and talking how hopeless they are and what a distant minority they are - and to be shocked and stunned by this, you wonder if any lessons have been learned.

A lot of people think I'm crazy, you know, leaving a Democratic supermajority state to go to the superminority in Congress.

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed.

I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.

We [on the left] have to be used to being a minority -- a small minority -- for some time to come. The odd thing is that the right, even when it is in power, likes to think of itself as an embattled minority against this elite that somehow runs everything. Whereas the left, even when it has no power at all, likes to imagine it somehow represents the majority of people. These are mirror-image delusions.

Our Founding Fathers created the United States Senate for the purpose of protecting the rights of the minority.

Arkansas is a very small state, and it's even a smaller field when you break it down to Republicans in this state.

If you're a minority party that doesn't control any branch of government, you're more likely to be ignored.

In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security he was very often in the minority.

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

In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.

All societies, including societies called democratic, are ruled by a minority.

I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority.

I come from extremely liberal people, one of only 20 in Texas where I grew up.

The left, if you get them honest, will admit they know they're a minority.

[Radical leftist] are never been a majority. We just fell for one of the greatest illusions in modern politics.

We have been placed at The Act of Union in an exceptional situation, a minority situation, in the distribution of political power. If we have to succumb, we would at least succumb, is such a way to that we will earn respect.