Counterproductive Quote by Barack Obama

The Republicans have bought into the idea that people hate them because they're opposed to everything.

— Rush Limbaugh

Republicans who oppose Obamacare have a responsibility to show that they can do better - not return us to the days when insurance companies…

— Jan Schakowsky

If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done,…

— Carl Levin

I have ever been opposed to banks, - opposed to internal improvements by the general government, - opposed to distribution of public lands among…

— Sam Houston

If Republicans are going in the wrong direction, I am still willing to stand up against them.

— Steve Scalise

There's a huge cost in being bipartisan, a tradition started by Newt Gingrich when he took over the House in 1994 and has continued…

— Gwen Moore

Where I underestimated the opposition was how willing Republicans in Congress would be to put their short-term political interests ahead of what they knew…

— Valerie Jarrett

The Republican Party has consistently opposed Obamacare (as costing more), stimulus spending (as increasing inflation), etc., none of which has happened in spite of…

— Philip Kotler

A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a…

— Brian Celio

Well, dissent is the tradition in America, and I've been on the side of dissent a good bit of my career, particularly in the…

— Lloyd Doggett

I was a Republican, and I saw the activists and what they were doing; it was intolerable to me.

— Charlie Crist

We should not oppose something just because it was appropriated by the wrong guys; rather, we should think about how to reappropriate it.

— Slavoj Žižek