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Quotes About Opposition

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.
~ Kathy Acker
People who oppose Obama are said to be racists - so I guess I'm a racist.
~ Herman Cain
Many businesses oppose any government mandates, even if they are already following them.
~ Madeleine M. Kunin
There are many people that frankly cannot get themselves to oppose Barack Obama. They make a lot of excuse for him.
~ Jonathan Turley
It's always a collective group of people coming together to oppose those things which are fundamentally contrary to our basic humanity.
~ Laurence Fishburne
Indeed the Obamas, the Clintons, and many other elites who oppose school choice and make it harder for charter schools to operate, send their own children to private institutions that cost more than many Hispanic families make in a year.
~ Rachel Campos-Duffy
Lawmakers zealously guard their prerogatives, and as much as some might oppose a minimum-wage increase, they will not want to see the issue taken out of their hands.
~ Eric Schneiderman
One might oppose the CIA program, but Abu Ghraib it ain't.
~ Michael Hayden
It is the BJP's duty to criticise and oppose me. I have no problem with that.
~ H. D. Kumaraswamy
Mark Carney is one of the enemies of Brexit. He has opposed it consistently.
~ Jacob Rees-Mogg
Also, General Zinni, who commanded central command, was very much opposed to the war in the first place, as I was. We were both quoted to that effect in February of 2003.
~ William Odom
Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
~ Jackie Chan
At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so opposed that if she couldn't talk a girl out of it, she just never had anything more to do with her for the four years she was there.
~ Nancy Roman
One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.
~ Carter G. Woodson
In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.
~ Barry Commoner
I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.
~ J. K. Rowling
What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.
~ Rand Paul
I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.
~ Leon Kass
Everybody will say that they're not opposed to immigration; they're opposed to illegal immigration. That's what I'm saying.
~ Sam Brownback
Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.
~ Christopher Dodd
I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort.
~ Don Johnson
Never in my life would I have expected USDA to be opposed to farmers and ranchers.
~ Jerry Moran
I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.
~ Arlen Specter
Hillary Clinton became secretary of state under Barack Obama. It's hard to convey just how stunningly cynical she has been on Colombia: In 2008, running against Obama, she opposed, in unambiguous terms, a free-trade deal with Colombia.
~ Greg Grandin