Quotes About Opposition

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans

The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.

How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy.

When all else fails the liberals call you names or attack your personality.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.

Political parties serve to keep each other in check, one keenly watching the other.

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

The duty of an Opposition is to oppose.

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!

Anarchists have taken over (the GOP).

Not all negativity is bad. In politics, it's a necessary clarifying tool.

Nobody told me when I became a Democrat that that involved opposition to lower taxes.

NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition.

A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.

The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy

When I campaigned, I'd let them throw a punch, but by gosh, I'd throw two back. I always said, the first rule in politics is never defend, always attack. I still believe that.