When historians look at the Obama presidency, they're likely to credit him especially for doing the politically unpopular things that were needed in 2009 to salvage the financial wreckage.

- David Ignatius

I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

- Jeanette Winterson

It's hard to name a person who is unpopular who has influence.

- Guy Kawasaki

I was incredibly unpopular in high school but also extremely notorious.

- Grimes

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

- Fran Lebowitz

I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause.

- Edward Said

I know I'm unpopular.

- Ehud Olmert

I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.

- Edith Sitwell

Obama hasn't been divisive just because his policies are so unpopular, though that's a large part of it.

- David Limbaugh

'Cosmopolitan' used to publish five covers across the U.S. so that if one was unpopular, it wouldn't tank their entire sales.

- Dave Goldberg

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

- Desmond Tutu

You're saying 'will it become politically unpopular to have the position I'm having.' If it does, so be it.

- Chris Christie

What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.

- Bryce Courtenay

If you drop a channel, you're incredibly unpopular, and if you pass along a rate increase, you're incredibly unpopular.

- Brian L. Roberts

I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.

- Benjamin F. Wade

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

- B. Carroll Reece

I'm actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

- Bono

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

- Billy Corgan

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

- Albert Einstein