Quotes About Opposition

I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.

Donald Trump said women should be punished, that there should be some form of punishment for women who obtain abortions. And I could just not be more opposed to that kind of thinking.

Where did this commandment come from in relation to polygamy? It also came from God... When I see any of our people, men or women, opposing a principle of this kind... I consider them apostates.

I know I'm right, and I know you're wrong.

If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no civil rights laws in the country.

Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.

The greater the fruit a trees bears, the greater the number of stones thrown at it.

To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.

The greater the fruit a tree bears, the greater the number of stones thrown at it.

It is not through fighting the opposition that will win you dignity. It is when you fight the fear in yourself that asks you why you don't feel you have it, regardless if you win or lose.

In order to be a star performer you have to have someone to play against.

Once you start rooting against somebody, you're always going to look for the negative in everything they do.

Not everybody can like what I do, and if you feel that somebody is coming up closer to you and starting the rivalry and everything, you maybe change your position to him.

If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.

Everybody who goes into government gets somewhat chewed up in the process. Being a senior appointee is like being at a startup, only more so: You run into opposition from the entrenched oligopoly of contractors whose business model is to extract as much money from government as possible for doing as little as possible.

Slapping a catchy acronym like the JOBS Act on a piece of legislation makes it more difficult for politicians to oppose it - and indeed that's what happened with the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act.

The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.

I believe that if Democrats - not any one Democrat, and certainly not just me - want to start winning races again, Lujan's statement that the DCCC would fund candidates who oppose abortion rights puts our country in danger and makes it all the more likely that the Republicans will continue to defeat us in election after election.

I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they do is hold roundtables and release political statements, which is all well and good. But there are concrete things that need to get done in order to achieve the basic goal of every opposition politician.

One thing I learned about Gordon Brown is you've got to have the strength to just get in there and take him on. When you first hear him spouting his statistics and boasting about his record, it can be quite intimidating. But over time, shadowing him, I just realised that a lot of it was rubbish; a lot of it was baloney.

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

I've fought against the National Popular Vote to make sure someone like Hillary Clinton can't steal their way to the presidency.

Congressional opposition to immigration reform or emergency funds doesn't stem from any philosophical objections or differences of principle. It stems from a calculated, petty, selfish rejection of anything Obama proposes.

While the reigning stereotype is that Republicans are opposed to gay rights, growing Republican support in state-by-state fights belies this perception.