"[The candidate is] giving a voice to the silent majority – the white population that works too hard to have time to be politically active." --Vince Thompson, a supporter of GOP Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan in 1996. Quoted in Nicole Hemmer, Partisans, p. 220.

I thought it might be a quote from When The Clock Broke by John Ganz.

Working too hard at what, whining? For a silent majority, I defy them to go 5 freaking minutes actually being silent.