An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.

- Bainbridge Colby

You can make plans but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless.

- David Gower

I shall be well enough when I get to Kentucky or Alabama. The tonic I need is the tonic of opposition. That always sets me on my feet.

- Dorothea Dix

There's always opposition when you do something big. I do many things that are controversial. When people see it, they love it!

- Donald Trump

If all opposition were curtailed, if all maladies were removed, then the primary purposes of the Father's plan would be frustrated.

- David A. Bednar

We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.

- Chris Matthews

When I was in the Maine Senate and proposed Maine RX - a plan to lower prescription drug costs by forcing the pharmaceutical companies to negotiate - I was told by many people that it was too big an idea, and we couldn't overcome opposition from the drug companies.

- Chellie Pingree

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

- Christopher Hitchens

It's our job as Liberal Democrats to be an effective opposition - and an increasingly tough one as well.

- Charles Kennedy

That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition.

- Bob Cousy

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

- Al Franken

To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.

- Bruno Dumont

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.

- Brian Ferneyhough

A complete investment in the Obama administration required that any real opposition had to be demonized. The investment in Barack Obama had to be protected.

- Bob Ehrlich

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

- Bryant H. McGill

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

- Benjamin Disraeli

My record of opposition to illegal immigration is unquestioned.

- Ann Wagner

The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.

- Antony Jay

I was faced more with apathy than opposition.

- Adrian Cronauer

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

- Anna Quindlen