225 Opposition Quotes for You to Enjoy

Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office. Juan Williams

Political Party President Took President Obama Obama Had Demands Hikes Until Without Been Opposition Ceiling Debt Debt Ceiling Office Any Routine

Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog. Katha Pollitt

Dog Abortion Party Christian Conservatives Further Ways Hoping Brought Tail Course Opposition Move Republican Republican Party Now Right Christian Right

Congress suffers a great deal of criticism for its partisan acrimony. But while we may disagree politically, and air our opposition in this chamber, it is the conversation behind the scenes that cements and defines our relationships. Kay Bailey Hutchison

I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change. Kenneth Clarke

I cannot remember a time in opposition - I am talking about the last four years - when we have done less work on policy and more on slogans. But because of my European views I wasn't allowed to participate. Kenneth Clarke

There were times when gangs would approach me, but my father was way stronger than them. They would come make threats and stuff, and I was like, 'You don't know the opposition I've got upstairs. I'm not scared of you.' Kerby Jean-Raymond

To present me as the main face of the opposition movement is completely incorrect. I'm not a person who is 'against Putin.' I'm just a person who is standing up for a fair society, for free elections. Ksenia Sobchak

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The speed with which we in the Congress are going down is sometimes frightening. Government administration in the districts is rapidly reaching a low level. No strong opposition party has been able to emerge. Lal Bahadur Shastri

For those of us in the opposition movement under dictatorships, part of our job is confronting police and spending time in prison. So, a dissident not only needs to learn how to oppose oppression but also how to face the crackdowns and time in prison. Liu Xiaobo

The more allrounders you have, the more difficult it becomes for the opposition. The reason being, if you have players who can bat and bowl, and if they are proper allrounders - they may be spinning or fast-bowling allrounders - they add to the strength of the team. MS Dhoni

Strength You Difficult Add Bat Spinning Proper More Bowl Becomes Opposition May Being Team Reason Who Players

Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition. Maajid Nawaz

Other Only Protagonist Blinds Dogma Opposition

Liberals are wrong to think that opposition to health reform is a rejection of big government. If health reform consisted of extending Medicare to everyone, people would be delighted. There are millions of 64-year-olds out there who can hardly wait to be 65. Marcia Angell

Government Health People Wait Big Think Rejection Everyone Liberals Out Would Would-Be Delighted Wrong Health Reform Opposition Big Government Reform Who Hardly Extending Medicare Millions

We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions! Margaret J. Wheatley

Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and terrorists are bad people. The ideals of these groups are in opposition to everything our nation stands for and everything that holds true to our founding principles. Their hatred of people dissimilar to them is un-American, and it should not be tolerated under any circumstances. Markwayne Mullin

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It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate. Mary Cheney

Marriage Dissipate Take Opposition Years Same-Sex Same-Sex Marriage

When you are better than your opposition for 45 minutes and create six chances, if you don't score, you are in danger in the Premier League. It's the best league in the world. Mauricio Pochettino

Best You World Better Danger Minutes League Opposition Score Than Six Create Your Premier Premier League Chances

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me. Maya Lin

Me Hurt Black Young Sense Think Too OK Female None Opposition American Grade Asian Asian-American Served Below

Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening his totalitarian regime. Mel Martinez

Needs Focus Our Totalitarian Castro Support Freeing Cuba Within Continuing His Opposition Rewarding Movement Regime Strengthening

Very often, you did something slow with your arm, for example, and something rapid with your feet - but the arm had to do something large against this - and this set up a kind of opposition. Merce Cunningham

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Those of us who have not had the experience of being invaded by the Germans are in no position to criticize those who accommodated themselves to German occupation, with its ferocious punishments for those who expressed even the mildest opposition. Michael Korda

Experience Those Punishments Criticize Invaded Had Occupation Opposition Ferocious German Germans Being Themselves Us Who Even Expressed Position

Benjamin Netanyahu has made the official policy of the Israeli government the two-state solution, at a time when he had opposition from many quarters. That is his official position. He remains publicly committed to it, but not just publicly; also in diplomacy, totally committed to moving swiftly toward that solution. Michael Oren

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The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda. Michele Bachmann

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I expected a lot of flak over my new book, '50 Things Liberals Love to Hate' from, well, liberals. It's not a big shock that the kind of liberals I skewer in the book - the radical, Che Guevara-loving type - have posted scathing reviews at Amazon and written nasty e-mails and voiced opposition to a book they haven't actually read. Mike Gallagher

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