Quotes About Opposition

If I were to become a politician and people from the opposition criticised me then I will not feel good. So, I stay away from these things.

I am an anti-Conservative politician, and that's how I would lead our party.

Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

There are a lot of politicians who are just obstructionists.

In a democracy, opposition politicians have a duty to hold the Government to account.

Politicians always criticize each other in different ways.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

I came into politics to fight lefties... That's where political fighting goes.

People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

Azam Khan must be barred from contesting polls.

DMK's arrogance of being in power at the Centre will be put an end to by AIADMK in the Lok Sabha polls.

Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me.

Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.

I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.

Well, I'm not that popular with the politicians, I have to say.

It's much easier to gain control over a mass population when you pit them against each other.

Politicians and leaders who see the media as 'the enemy within' divide society into two clashing cultural camps. Populist demagogues benefit from binary oppositions.

That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.

Whatever advantage Trump thinks he will gain by positioning the U.S. in opposition to its natural allies will be dwarfed by the losses.

In a couple of games there have been players who have man-marked me, but that is down to me learning what I can do when those situations arise, getting in better positions.

If you want to give me a good faceful for one of my political positions, I can take it.

Oppositions usually say ridiculous things and must embarrassingly then ditch untenable positions.

When you play against a top side, you know they will have more possession, and they will be in more control, and you have to find one or two counterattacks.