Majority Vote Quotes

The majority in the Senate is prepared to restore the Senate's traditions and precedents to ensure that regardless of party, any president's judicial nominees, after full and fair debate, receive a simple up-or-down vote on the Senate floor.

Everything, everywhere, shall be decided by majority vote.

In the U.S. Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House.

Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.

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.

We've always said a filibuster is not appropriate for judicial nominees. A filibuster is a legislative tool designed to extract compromises. A judicial nominee is a person. You can't take the arm or leg of a nominee.

There's a viewpoint that says, 'I can fight for minorities, and I can fight for women,' and if you get that, you make up a vast majority of the voting block, and you win. And white males have been left aside a little bit in the politics of who speaks to them.

Don't make decisions by majority vote. The majority is almost always wrong.

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

The notion that a person's constitutional rights may be subject to a majority vote is itself anathema.

As every newspaper reader, liberal activist, or parliamentary junkie knows, the overarching barrier to most of Obama's agenda is the abuse of the filibuster in the Senate. In fact, several of Obama's second term priorities are not ideas in search of a majority - they are majorities in search of an up-or-down vote.

Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.

President Obama did something that no Democrat's done since Franklin Roosevelt: that is, get a majority vote in Ohio twice. So I don't really buy that his policy is that unpopular.

The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive.

As for our majority... one is enough.

Democracies are actually war-prone, owing to their very moral conceit—their confidence in the superiority of their culture and the system of their government—and the ease by which a simple majority vote of their legislatures can instantaneously mobilize an entire society for war.

The majority prevails in a democracy, eventually.

For any party or alliance, it is imperative to get at least 272 Lok Sabha seats to claim the PM's post.

The role of the speaker of the House is to deliver enough votes by understanding and accommodating the individual bottom lines of enough members to pass the bill.

Well then, the ayes have it.

This is nothing negative about the other candidates. It's just a recognition of the fact that Governor Romney has won more delegates. He's the only person that really has a chance to take the winning number of delegates into the convention.

The Democratic support against Barker [72 to 25] was so strong that they didn't even need us Republicans.

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

Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.

One can dismiss the Prime Minister of India most easily. All that is necessary is for Parliament to pass a vote of no-confidence.