Quotes About Opposition

Civil rights activists and union activists shared not just common values and objectives but also common enemies.

Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union.

I'm not going to stop beating up on the unions.

Some people called me a fascist. That's mostly over, but there will be more attacks from the unions.

When the unions were fighting me 45 years ago, they could never beat me.

Britain's unions were broken and battered by Thatcherism and never recovered.

Republicans are consistently right-to-work and they want to eliminate unions or destroy the union way of life.

Indeed, many Singaporeans hope the opposition can unite and coordinate their efforts so as to become a more relevant political force.

Only Boris Johnson will get the best Brexit deal for Britain, defeat Jeremy Corbyn's divisive shambles of an opposition, and govern the United Kingdom in the national interest.

President Barack Obama's administration sometimes finds itself at odds with members of Congress who oppose nearly everything the United Nations does on principle.

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.

The United States and China are competitors. And there is nothing wrong with competition.

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.

I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.

I honestly believe that there's an element in this country, in our politics, that does not want to see a businessman succeed at getting the nomination for the Republican party, and does not want me to succeed at becoming President of the United States of America.

If segregationists had their way, I would not be a member of the United States Senate today, I would not be a top contender to be president of the United States.

The opposition has always opposed the Universal Child Care Benefit, from the time the Liberals said parents would just spend it on beer and popcorn.

Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

Choosing to arm and train the Islamist opposition against dictator Moammar Gadhafi unleashed its most ruthless terrorist elements.

Now we have blacks and whites fighting, reds and yellows fighting, Democrats and Republicans fighting, men and women fighting.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries.

When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.