So tonight, to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans, I ask for your support.
A silent majority seems to know that demography and economics make pension reform inevitable.
Then the counterculture overreached, Nixon found his "silent majority", and railed against his own bugbear elites: the now familiar culprits in academia, Hollywood and the press.
The importance of his ideas is that they represent the unspoken opinion of the silent majority.