One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Like me the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

I dropped out of school for a semester transferred to another college switched to an art major graduated got married and for a while worked as a graphic designer.

My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball however the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.

You can't fall back on the private sector and say 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government the Federal Reserve the Treasury and the FDIC etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there.

It's counterintuitive but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority.

I didn't do improv in college I never performed I didn't do theater either. I was in student government I was a history major.