minorities quotes

Experience shows that great enterprises seldom end with a tidy and satisfactory flourish. Together, we are doingourbesttore-establishpeaceand civil order inthe Gulf region, and to help those members of civil and ethnic minorities who continuetosuffer through no fault oftheirown.If wesucceed,ourmilitarysuccesswill have achieved its true objective.

-Elizabeth II
  Commenting on the aftermath of the Gulf  War in the first address by a British monarch to Congress,16 May.

Looking around the House, one realizes that we are all minorities now. See Shawcross 782:4.

- (John) Jeremy Thorpe
  On the absence of a clear party majority, House of Commons, 6 Mar.