Harry Reid: “When I speak to townhall meetings and especially when I speak to government classes--high school, even elementary…”

“When I speak to townhall meetings and especially when I speak to government classes--high school, even elementary school, and college classes--whenever I am asked about the Constitution, I always say what my friend from Maryland said--that the Constitution was not written to protect the majority; the Constitution of the United States was written to protect the minority. The majority can always protect itself. Rules, regulations, and laws that flow from this little document are so devised to protect the minority, and that is what this is all about. That is why I felt so at ease during the last Congress--because we protected the minority; we did not run over the minority. In fact, their resources were allocated almost identically to what ours were because the Senate was divided 51 to 49. As the Senator from Maryland has said several times today, that is all we want. We want to make sure that the resources are allocated just like they were in the last Congress.”