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Quotes About Adversarial

The third criticism of the electoral system is that it encourages adversarial politics in Britain, with consequent negative
~ Philip Norton
In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its unique ability to provide a truly adversarial check on those in power.
~ Glenn Greenwald
In the adversarial system, it's more important to follow legal procedure than to speak the truth.
~ Jon Krakauer
The perception of Donald Trump in capitals around the world is shaped, in many ways, by CNN. Continuing to have an adversarial relationship with that network is a mistake.
~ Jeff Zucker
Disagreement can be useful even when its intention is adversarial. Half my muses have been haters.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Men and the world are mutually toxic to each other.
~ Philip K. Dick
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
~ Barry Humphries
Unconditional parents want to know how to do something other than threaten and punish. They don't see their relationship with their children as adversarial, so their goal is to avoid battles, not win them.
~ Alfie Kohn
Critical people can be toxic, foment gossip, and undermine your efforts.
~ Alfred Ells
Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.
~ Nathaniel Branden
Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.
~ Arundhati Roy
Where we see self esteem, we see self acceptance. High self esteem individual tend to avoid falling into an adversarial relationship with themselves.
~ Nathaniel Branden
Look, we don't have the luxury of not dealing with China. There are real complexities to the relationship, whether it's the adversarial piece, whether it's the competitive piece, whether it's the cooperative piece.
~ Antony Blinken
Reading a brief filled with ad hominem attacks is like listening to my kids fight, except that I have to wait until we're in the courtroom to tell the attacking lawyer what I think about it.
~ Raymond Kethledge
Lucy said, "The law is an adversarial contest that defines justice as staying within the rules and seeing the game to its conclusion. Justice is reaching a conclusion. It has very little to do with right and wrong. The law gives us order. Only men and women can give us what you want to call justice.
~ Robert Crais
The weird thing about my relationship with Reince is we were pretty good friends when I was a political donor writing checks to the RNC. But once I was about to enter the administration, for whatever reason, it was a little more adversarial.
~ Anthony Scaramucci
Prime Minister Maliki, released from American restraint, acted on his worst instincts, creating enormous distrust in Iraq's Kurdish population and deeply embittering Sunnis in western Iraq's Al Anbar, who lost any confidence in a Baghdad government they saw as adversarial.
~ Jim Mattis
There are members of the London press who seek to antagonise me, deliberately.
~ Alex Ferguson
There is no law that guarantees press access to the White House. Communication was lessening during the Obama years. There was every reason to suspect that Trump was going to create an adversarial relationship and that people were going to be faced with the impossible dilemma between sort-of-complicity and access.
~ Masha Gessen
The wound-tight, travel-light Obama has a distaste for the adversarial and the random. But if you stick too rigidly to a 'No Drama' rule in the White House, you risk keeping reality at bay. Presidencies are always about crisis management.
~ Maureen Dowd
We're privileged as citizens of the United States to live in a society where the press can act in an adversarial role in a number of different ways.
~ Bob Iger
Murphy biked circles around the courthouse parking lot like an evil newspaper boy from one of her favorite movies, Better Off Dead . She and Judge Miller Abbott didn't have a great history. Since she'd hit puberty, he'd seen her through two shoplifting convictions, countless underage alcohol issues, a few streaking episodes, and the time she'd mutilated the Bob's Big Boy "Big Boy.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what they do in the dark, and informing the public about those acts.
~ Glenn Greenwald
How can litigation not be adversarial? That's the fun part.
~ Lisa Scottoline