Opposition Quotes · Page 25

The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do…

— John Podhoretz

You have to make your vote count. You can't rely on somebody else to cast the vote for the opposition.

— Pritam Singh

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office…

— Anonymous

The opposition's role is meaningful when voters elect an opposition with an elected mandate to speak for Singaporeans.

— Pritam Singh

I don't like to talk about players from other teams, just like I wouldn't like it if the opposition coach talked about…

— Ernesto Valverde

I never intended to become an opposition political leader. Perhaps the government wants to raise me up into one.

— Park Won-soon

You have to do a lot of planning, certainly in football. We watch the opposition three or four times before we play…

— Chris Coleman

No opposition politician has ever taken responsibility for his or her election failures.

— Alexei Navalny

There is no need to respond to whatever your most powerful and unaccountable political opponent says you have to respond to, particularly…

— Mollie Hemingway

Paralysis in decision-making breeds frustration and contempt from the electorate, and provides the perfect seedbed for demagogues who fill the vacuum with…

— Dominic Grieve

I cannot have a concept of football where everything is based on the opposition. We have to dictate the game, we have…

— Mikel Arteta

In the Bible and Holy Qur'an, God shows us through the life of His prophets and messengers that none of them came…

— Louis Farrakhan

Democrats and their allies in corporate America are preemptively taking out the opposition because they know that their prescriptions don't work and…

— Miranda Devine

From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions…

— Angela Merkel

You just work really hard and scrutinize. What is it called in politics? "Opposition research"? You want to do the detective work…

— James Ponsoldt

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light…

— Georges Bataille

“Life is a test.  It was designed to be so.  It is where we taste the bitter and the sweet; where we…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Grace stands in direct opposition to any supposed worthiness on our part. To say it another way: Grace and works are mutually…

— Jerry Bridges

Restoring prayer ... will scarcely at this date solve the grievous public school problem. Public schools are expensive and massive centers for…

— Murray Rothbard

Early in his life Mr. [Ezra] Pound met with strong, continued, and unintelligent opposition. If people keep opposing you when you are…

— Randall Jarrell

There had been observed in this country certain streams of influence which are causing a marked deterioration in our literature, amusements, and…

— Henry Ford

Just wait and see this stuff play out as it does. But if, for example, why would he say some human activity…

— Rush Limbaugh

The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing…

— Charles Krauthammer

The real problem is the total capitulation of German social democracy to capitalism, reflected and symbolized by actual extreme center coalition governments…

— Tariq Ali

One more point I'll just make about [Michael] Flynn is that we're already seeing, and we've seen Democrats come forward and start…

— Kristen Welker

Art stands in opposition to all the bad things that happen in life, which is where physicians stand. That's what doctors do-affirm…

— Eric Avery

Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I always keep my weather eye on the opposition of my seventh house Moon to my first house Mars.

— Theodore Roosevelt

It is important to signal that opposition to the use of any weapon of mass destruction is both deep and broad.

— Richard N. Haass

The opposition believes that we should allow people to vote without even showing a shred of identification. Canadians disagree.

— Pierre Poilievre

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between…

— Elia Kazan

While many of Mr. Obama's ideas warrant skepticism, conservative opposition to any expanded role for government is a mistake.

— Paul Singer

If the opposition puts two or three players on me, it means that some of our other players are free. If I…

— Adama Traore

I like to be active in space in behind the opposition's midfield. That's where I can hurt the opponent most of all.

— Thomas Muller

Since 1998, I have served my country as a member of four cabinets and as the leader of the parliamentary opposition.

— Frank-Walter Steinmeier

You can't control the opposition, but you can control how you play, your energy level, your intensity on the ice. That's what…

— Alain Vigneault

Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

It was only with the emergence of the Conceptualist approaches of the late 1960s that the opposition between artists using photography and…

— Jean-Francois Chevrier

I think the Sixties in some ways is a barrier to young people today. They think of it, you know, what we're…

— Anonymous

I think what separates me from the candidates is the fact that I have a proven track record of being a fighter.…

— Michele Bachmann