Assistant Majority Whip

Famous quotes containing the words majority and/or whip:

“In republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)

“The variables are surprisingly few.... One can whip or be whipped; one can eat excrement or quaff urine; mouth and private part can be meet in this or that commerce. After which there is the gray of morning and the sour knowledge that things have remained fairly generally the same since man first met goat and woman.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)