Quotes of: Major-impact Keyword

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

Maggie Gallagher

What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.

Olusegun Obasanjo

The Chinese government clearly sees Internet and mobile innovation as a major driver of its global economic competitiveness going forward.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.

Sidney Blumenthal

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

William Weld

I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.

David Attenborough

The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.

Noam Chomsky

I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.

Paul Simon

One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I've learned about happiness, the more I've come to believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider.

Gretchen Rubin

Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

Joe Torre

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

Steven Soderbergh

I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century.

William Clay Ford, Jr.

Once you make the majors, it's never a great feeling to go back to the minors - no matter what the circumstances.

Jon Lester

I think the stuff that plays on the radio, the majority of it is for teenagers, which is okay. That's what pop radio is about. And some of it is great, and some of it is not.

LL Cool J

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I majored in Chinese Studies. I'm probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.

Lloyd Kaufman

The great majority of Scientologists I know are good people who are genuinely interested in improving conditions on this planet and helping others.

Paul Haggis

It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.

Yani Tseng

I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether.

Henry Cabot Lodge

I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry.

Herschel Walker

The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.

Vince Gill