Quotes About Minority Government

#1. The last thing the Province needs is a minority government

Hazel McCallion

#2. A minority government can't govern without support from other parties.

Nicola Sturgeon

#3. One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is you get a hybrid of what a single party might do. And I don't think that is a bad thing.

Kathleen Wynne

#4. The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed, and a minority government ensues. Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.

William E. Simon

#5. When we speak of "gods," we are really talking about "the opinions of priests." When we speak of "the government," we really mean "the violence of a tiny minority.

Stefan Molyneux

#6. The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor.

James Madison

#7. War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society these irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense.

Randolph Bourne

#8. The [Elian] raid ... was almost worth it, if only to watch Jesse Jackson ... defending an armed pre-dawn raid by the US government on a minority household.

Rich Galen

#9. Don't get me wrong. Government Contracting is difficult, but the help you give the government makes our country strong.

Linda Rawson

#10. In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.

Mikhail Bakunin

#11. Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right.

William Allen White

#12. If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

Stephen Harper

#13. Too late to apologize, I've already forgiven you.

Robin Hobb

#14. The next day the government of South Africa announced that full civil rights would be restored to the white minority.

Arthur C. Clarke

#15. Sometimes the truth is not as believable as a well-crafted lie.

Linda Palmer

#16. I'm a bloodsucking fiend," she said. "I'm not supposed to be reassuring.

Sarah Beth Durst

#17. I think I have been perfectly clear in saying that I hope Canadians do elect a majority government. I think this cycle of election after election, minority after minority is beginning to put some of the country's interests in serious jeopardy.

Stephen Harper

#18. At first view it might seem not to square with the republican theory, to suppose either that a majority have not the right, or that a minority will have the force to subvert a government ... But theoretic reasoning in this, as in most other cases, must be qualified by the lessons of practice.

James Madison

#19. You know why I got involved in politics? The government is now a majority partner in my life. I am now a minority partner in my own life.

Anthony Scaramucci

#20. In all your life, your only choice is the path of needles or the path of pins.

Rosamund Hodge

#21. The minority must have involvement in society. You can have different cultural practices that you accept. But if you are going to adopt democracy in government, then the government itself must allow the minority to be heard.

Sheila Jackson Lee

#22. If the minority is able to successfully undo the Affordable Care Act by blackmail, it will be the undoing of the democratic nature of our government.

Jerrold Nadler

#23. But if the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there is an end put at one stroke to republican government, and nothing but anarchy and confusion is to be expected thereafter ...

George Washington

#24. Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups, and a general shrinking of the democratic space.

Samantha Power

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

Alf Landon

#26. Feed yourself spiritual food or the devil will feed on you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#27. We're never all going to agree with each other. We have to learn to value the diversity. It's one of the presumable principles of our government that isn't followed nearly enough - one of the jobs of the majority is to try and make the minority feel comfortable.

Paul R. Ehrlich

#28. We must settle this question now
whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

#29. It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.

Ray Bradbury