Simple Majority Quotes

We don't want someone who will get 98 percent of the vote. We want someone who will get 51 percent of the vote.

In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.

You're not trying to win 100 percent of the vote. You're after 50 percent plus one. It doesn't matter if you tick off the other 49 percent.

Reconciliation is a special budget procedure to change entitlement and tax laws. It cannot be filibustered and requires only a simple majority in the Senate to be passed. It is primarily intended for deficit and mandatory spending reduction.

Athens' biggest worry was the sheer recklessness of its own democratic government. A simple majority of the citizenry, urged on and incensed by clever demagogues, might capriciously send out military forces in unnecessary and exhausting adventures.

As for our majority... one is enough.

The debate is ended. Fifty percent plus one vote is all we need to govern this country.

Remember, success for a politician is 50% plus one. You don't have to have everybody on board.

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.