Quotes About Resistance

I think in political life you can only know your position and stay in place, even though people always try to push you to one side.

Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

There are a lot of politicians who are just obstructionists.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

Climate change and air pollution know no borders, and antibiotics resistance respects no boundaries. Bacteria from Africa can make people in America sick. The burning of Indonesian forests can keep Asia gasping for breath.

Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.

I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

I'm anti-big power. I don't know if that's populist or not.

I try not to buy pork pies but sometimes I fail.

When the Americans advance, we harass and retreat, fire from new positions and then retreat again. If the attacking force is too big, we call for support.

No bully ever turns down a free shot when his posse pins back your arms.

Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy.

I'm the worst ad anyone could possibly be for abstaining from anything.

If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.

There was a massive poster of me down my road, right outside the chip shop. I was about to go in, but then I saw it and changed my mind. Me coming out with a bag of chips, while I'm up there doing crunches on the poster... well, it would not look good.

When we classify an issue as a 'shield issue' it is usually because we feel that someone else occupies the high ground on that issue. We feel we can't win on that issue and so we adopt a defensive posture.

I still love chips. Chips are still my favourite potato dish. I struggle not to have chips every day.

We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

I always do the contrary of what my coaches tell me.