Quotes About Opposition

Our only goal is to strengthen the opposition and to avoid the dilemma whereby we only have the choice between Bashar Assad and al-Qaeda.

Fighting your opponent's strengths is the key, you frustrate them on what they have best.

I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.

I'm not comparing myself to Bobby Kennedy by any stretch, but he was opposed by the liberal establishment, too. Eleanor Roosevelt was the biggest opponent to him running.

The CDU was a party that united different denominational and ideological currents. If the idea of a rightward shift means that we ignore those roots and only define ourselves as a conservative party, then I am strictly opposed.

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.

If someone criticizes me, I strike back.

I'm always someone who wants to strive to prove someone wrong or show something that maybe they haven't seen.

I am opposed to heart attacks and cancer and strokes the way I am opposed to sin.

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

The speed with which we in the Congress are going down is sometimes frightening. Government administration in the districts is rapidly reaching a low level. No strong opposition party has been able to emerge.

I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man, but to propose new policies. I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and because I have such strong feelings about what must be done, and I feel that I'm obliged to do all I can.

I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition.

It was not my wish to come into politics. I was not a public person; I preferred to spend my birthdays with family and friends. But the 2008 elections were fraudulent, so I decided to finance the opposition to make them stronger.

The more insanity that comes from Washington, D.C., the stronger the loyal opposition becomes.

There is definitely a lot of banks that are interested in private blockchains. In some cases, they are happy with public blockchains as well. The opposition to just doing things on a public blockchain is definitely smaller than some of the strongest detractors think.

I've always believed in challenging Republicans where they think they are strongest.

For me, the ethical arguments that resonate strongest are the ones that oppose the death penalty.

I can't stress enough how strongly I am against any state intervention in a sovereign nation's affairs.

While in the Florida legislature, I strongly opposed the Stand Your Ground law because I believed it would provide defenses to people who had created the scenarios they sought protection from. Or it would leave juries without the proper rules of engagement that ought govern predictable human interactions.

I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.

I was strongly against Brexit. I speechified against Brexit.

The National Stock Exchange was strongly opposed by Bombay stockbrokers and captains of industry. I thought some competition is good. The exchange has given a very good account of itself.

Indias rapid economic growth has mainly been due to the dismantling of government controls. An attempt to reintroduce monopolistic pricing must be strongly opposed.