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Quotes About Opposition

It was the anti-people stance of the Congress that had led to the emergence of BJP into power.
~ Pinarayi Vijayan
Our experiences of the Solstice depends entirely upon where we are when it occurs. Neither Solstice encompasses everyone. Neither can. The Solstices stand forever opposed, literally at the two poles of our Earth and experiences.
~ Gary Zukav
I want to stand for something, and it's probably going to be something that some people stand against.
~ Blake Shelton
You have to have enough conviction to stand for something. It doesn't matter if it's the opposing party or your own party.
~ Darryl Glenn
If you stand for something you will have people for you and people against you. But if you stand for nothing you will have nobody for you and nobody against you.
~ Maurice Saatchi
If you stand for something, that means there are going to be people who support you and people who don't support you.
~ Scott Borchetta
The way we're going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we're going to win elections in this country is to stand up for what we believe in.
~ Howard Dean
You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
~ Rand Paul
When you hear someone criticize a policy on the other side, that's fine. But when you start hearing motive-mongering and demonization, stand up to it just as you would if it were something that was racist or sexist. If we avoid the demonization, disagreements can be positive.
~ Jonathan Haidt
It takes one person to stand up for what he believes in. I believe there's been an injustice in Arizona. I oppose Bill 1070.
~ Taboo
We have to do what we think is right, even though we may have to stand up to some loud voices in our own parties in order to get something done.
~ Roy Cooper
Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them.
~ Gloria Steinem
It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.
~ Gloria Allred
When armed people from Hamas and armed people from Fatah are standing opposite each other, there is more likely to be a confrontation amongst them.
~ Ehud Olmert
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
I don't regret standing up to Gamergate at all.
~ Brianna Wu
Joe Biden stands out from other Democratic candidates not just by taking on President Trump directly but also by seeking to separate Trump from the rest of the Republican Party.
~ Max Boot
I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for.
~ Jonathan Shapiro
Great presidents take stands, and they fight off these people who really are so far to the right. I don't want to call them names, even though they would call me names.
~ Helen Thomas
We need a direct repudiation of Barack Obama and everything for which he stands.
~ Monica Crowley
I regard myself as a grand juror waiting to hear the evidence from the prosecutor, the Judiciary Committee. I'm diametrically opposed to Nixon and everything he stands for, but I want to see the evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors first.
~ Thomas P. O'Neill
Trump is a man who, for better or worse, stands in opposition to the institutions that dominate American political life.
~ Michael Wolff
Resistance to Brexit is the logic of everything Labour stands for.
~ Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
Though I never shout at Labour Members or insult them, I can never understand the psychology of some of our men who endeavoured to reason with them.
~ Neville Chamberlain