Quotes About Opposition

Normally, the opposition gets more media space and even the people find it interesting to listen to voices against the government of the day.

Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.

The more independent mind you have the more your government will hate you! It is an honour for you to be hated this way!

You've got to remember that it's a two horse race. So when the Government is doing badly the Opposition is doing better and vice versa.

On one side the government, the other side the mob.

The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers.

The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.

Try telling a Cuban: 'You should pay higher rent, or pay for your own healthcare' ... There is no serious opposition to the current government.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed and are right.

Let's not allow the voice of the people to be overwhelmed by the siren song of those who opposed regulation, who demanded that government should stand aside and let finance and business run the show.

Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.

The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.

I have confidence in my campaign. I have assembled a great team that is going to beat George W. Bush, and any rumors to the contrary are completely erroneous.

Because the pernicious opposition by Satan continues, the continuous enlightened guidance of the Holy Ghost is absolutely essential.

Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.

From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.

If I'm the godfather of [Obamacare], then it gives me the right to kill it.

I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn't praise it.

When I took on the drug companies and the insurance companies for universal health care coverage, they went after me with a vengeance.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

I always knew that Neil Kinnock belonged in the economic nursery. Now, God help us we've got twins.

Bad habits are like having a sumo wrestler in the back of your canoe rowing the opposite direction.

As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation's goods.