Quotes About Opposition

I was shadow health secretary for six years, and the beauty of being in opposition - if there is any beauty - is that you tend to get a pretty unvarnished view because no one bothers to paint the coal white before you turn up.

The paint is something we need to defend.

There are certain people I do want to absolutely dislike me. And I want them to paint me as their enemy. Because I want nothing to do with them.

I hate painting.

I completely understand why people are attracted to Palin. First: Whatever 'it' is, she has 'it.' And second: She makes all the right people crazy. It's not hard to look around at Palin-haters, frothing at the mouth about 'how stupid' she is, and think, 'I'm sure as hell not with them. Whatever they are, I'm on the other team.'

I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.

I'm not paranoid, no. I'm different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.

I'll tell you from my heart, looking at their party further and further to the left, to paraphrase the director of the FBI: I think it would be extremely careless to elect Hillary Clinton.

I find Trump to be like a parasite.

My one complaint with my father as a parent is that, not only was he not a golfer, but also he was sort of opposed to golf. I was a country club kid growing up. I should have played golf, but my father thought golf was a sport for old men.

Fenway Park is a fun place to pitch in. You've got 38,000 fans all cheering against you. It's an intense atmosphere.

The BJP does not intend to use Parliament to project Congress's corruption.

Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?

The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.

We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is a forum, and it is called Parliament.

We know that Singaporeans want to see an opposition in Parliament. I think they want to have a balance in Parliament; some semblance of a balance.

The public may want an elected opposition in Parliament, but we have to earn our place and work hard both in our Town Councils and in Parliament to retain the confidence and support of our people.

Since 1998, I have served my country as a member of four cabinets and as the leader of the parliamentary opposition.

You cannot be a part-time candidate when you're running against Orrin Hatch.

If the opposition wants power they must participate in democratic elections and win the vote of the people.

I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.

It's particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There's always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you.

It would have been disastrous for Zambia if we had gone multi-party because these parties would have been used by those opposed to Zambia's participation in the freedom struggle.

I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.