America Quote by Thomas Jefferson

In Congress the majority governs, but the minority rules.

— Evan Esar

We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

— Anonymous

We believe in only the government we need, but we insist on all the government we need.

— Mario Cuomo

People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are…

— Walter Judd

It's precisely because America is not a democracy that we have survived! It's precisely because majority rule does have checks and balances on it.…

— Rush Limbaugh

I guess 35 years ago, I thought we had more of a democracy than we actually do. Majority support doesn't help unless the majority…

— Gloria Steinem

We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people…

— Walter Lippmann

Because of our peculiar electoral law, the American government is divided between two parties. The American people are not.

— Michael Lind

We have a small faction, and they are a minority, who believe they are there to govern. Then there is the majority of us…

— Tom DeLay

People tend to have a government that reflects the level of consciousness of the majority of people who voted.

— Marianne Williamson

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.

— Albert Camus