Majority Leader Quotes

#1. Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work.

Robert Caro

#2. Democrats' attack on the Republican majority leader is nothing but a coordinated agenda to stop an effective leader from accomplishing the people's business.

Bill Shuster

#3. In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.

Karl Rove

#4. Politicians are really getting desperate. In fact, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sent out a final fundraising email to Democrats with the subject line, 'I'm begging.' Because what better way to show you're a strong leader than acting like you're drunk and dialing your ex?

Jimmy Fallon

#5. My job as majority leader is be supportive of our troops, try to have input as decisions are made and to look at those decisions after they're made ... not to march in lock step with everything the president decides to do.

Trent Lott

#6. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid marveled at the electability of Barack Obama because, unlike previous black candidates, Mr. Obama was 'light-skinned' and lacked a 'Negro dialect.'

Monica Crowley

#7. The Senate Majority Leader has the unilateral ability to stand up and say, 'If you defy Congress, if you defy the Constitution, if you defy the American people, none of your nominees will be confirmed.'

Ted Cruz

#8. Now I have known Sen. Bill Frist, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, since he was born.

John Jay Hooker

#9. Did all of Singer's efforts to discredit mainstream science matter? When asked in 1995 where he got his assessments of ozone depletion, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, probably the most powerful man in Congress at the time, said, "my assessment is from reading people like Fred Singer."93

Naomi Oreskes

#10. Former U.S. House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, has been sentenced to three years in prison. One year for money laundering and two more for his performance on 'Dancing with the Stars.'

Jay Leno

#11. For years now, long before I became House majority leader, I have been passionate about foreign affairs because I believe that anyone who leads in Washington must appreciate the significance of America's role in providing for global security and prosperity.

Kevin McCarthy

#12. I've been a speaker. I've been a majority leader. I've been a minority leader. Those are the sort of things I don't need any more.

Dan Webster

#13. I was a member of the Florida legislature for nine years, the speaker of the house, majority leader, majority whip.

Marco Rubio

#14. I'm very sad about Mitch McConnell probably getting to be Senate majority leader, if only for two years. To me, he is just everything that is wrong with the world, a bullying obstructionist blowhard liar (not to put too fine a point on it).

Anne Lamott

#15. The majority cannot reason; it has no judgement. It has always placed its destiny in the hands of others; it has followed its leaders even into destruction. The mass has always opposed, condemned, and hounded the innovator, the pioneer of a new truth.

Emma Goldman

#16. So the guy who shot Gadhafi was wearing a Yankees cap. Did you see that? If he'd had a Boston Red Sox hat on he probably would have missed.

David Letterman

#17. After all, if you have the majority of customers, then what you do becomes the standard. Your competitors have little choice but to follow. If you are the leader, then having a nonstandard infrastructure is a bad idea. Ultimately, it leads to extinction.

Douglas Gwyn

#18. W. Edwards Deming, the father of the quality movement, taught that any time the majority of the people behave a particular way the majority of the time, the people are not the problem. The problem is inherent in the system.2 As a leader, you own responsibility for the system.

Chris McChesney

#19. The rage is still there but I found the right kind of channel, because it's tied to a love, it's tied to a struggle for justice. And most importantly, for me, it's tied to a recognition that I am a cracked vessel.

Cornel West

#20. No settlement with the majority is possible as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#21. The majority of people are timid by nature, and that is why they constantly exaggerate danger. all influences on the military leader, therefore, combine to give him a false impression of his opponent's strength, and from this arises a new source of indecision.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#22. I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future, too.

Peter Gay

#23. Self-assertion more often than not is vulgar, but a live and vulgar dog who keeps on barking is better than a dead lion, however dignified.

Louis MacNeice

#24. I was elected by the Democrats to be chair of the Veterans Committee, which I'm very proud of. And now am the rankings member on the Budget Committee, leader of the Democrats in opposition to the majority Republicans.

Bernie Sanders

#25. As a leader of a majority-Muslim nation, I believe Islamic countries must better understand what young people aspire to.

Najib Razak

#26. The young [Nazi] movement is in its nature and inner organization anti-parliamentarian; that is, it rejects ... a principle of majority rule in which the leader is degraded to the level of mere executant of other people's wills and opinion.

Adolf Hitler

#27. What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.

Newt Gingrich

#28. The governor is Virginia's chief executive and represents the commonwealth at all times.

Bob McDonnell

#29. It's more important to be comfortable with you weight, no matter what it is, as long as you are healthy and energetic to meet the personal goals and demands you have set in your life.

Shania Twain

#30. Things you might hear,
Things you wanna believe,
Things that aren't true,
Things that people say,
It's these THINGS that causes people to feel not wanted.

James Allen

#31. Until the American majority is willing to live within its means, it can hardly force its political leaders to do so.

Oliver DeMille

#32. The Dead are a larger army than any ever assembled, and they follow no leader, fear no threat, and accept no bribe or compromise. The Dead are the silent majority, and should they ever decide to say something, it will be the new law of the land.

Isaac Marion

#33. It is interesting to note that an overwhelming majority of citizens in the world's three largest democracies have different religions: India (81 percent Hindu), the United States (76 percent Christian), and Indonesia (87 percent Muslim). Two of them have elected women as leaders of their government.

Jimmy Carter

#34. Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt.

Oliver DeMille

#35. He wanted to limit me to his own investigation of who I was ...

Sheridan Hay

#36. A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#37. I've always managed by walking around. Any CEO or leader who spends the majority of his time in his office is not doing his job.

Donny Deutsch

#38. Nothing is going to remain the way it is. Let us, in the present, study the past, so as to invent the future.

Augusto Boal