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• When a party is in opposition, it opposes. That's its job. But when it comes to power, it must govern. Easy rhetoric is over, the press of reality becomes irresistible. By necessity, it adopts some of the policies it had once denounced. And a new national consensus is born.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Jobs, Party, Reality

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• When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Sports, Golf, Monsters

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• I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Government, Bigs, Bureaucracy

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• There are smart people on our side of the aisle who have known as early as I did who Obama was and should have been saying 'I hope this guy fails' right along with me. There should have been opposition to this guy all along.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Smart, Should Have, People

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• To somebody like Obama, substantive opposition is not tolerable. The objective is to eliminate all opposition - be it a political party, be it media, or what have you.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Media, Political

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• The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

  Walter Lippmann

  Learning, Glowing, Politics

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.233, Harvard University Press

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• The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

  Walter Lippmann

  Business, Simple, People

  "Walter Lippmann and the American Century. [Mit Portr.] (2. Print.)" by Ronald Steel, Transaction Publishers, (p. 277), 1980.

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• I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.

  John Major

  Thinking, Government, Parliament

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• The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.

  David Mamet

  Party, Government, Evil

  "Hands Off Our Guns" by David Mamet, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 28, 2013.

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• Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Motivational, Success, Meaningful

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• The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophical, Historical, Politics

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• 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

  Wind, Wings, Literature

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• I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.

  George McGovern

  War, Campaigns, Persian

  "As A New War Is Raging, Opposing Voices From The Past Sound Out Again; Mcgovern: 'I Am Ready' To Run" by Fox Butterfield, www.nytimes.com. January 25, 1991.

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• It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.

  Ian Mcewan

  Uplifting, Successful, Important

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• From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.

  Angela Merkel

  Party, Issues, Important

  Interview With Bertrand Benoit, Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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• Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

  Joyce Meyer

  Evil

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• People face difficulties, no matter who you are. I faced difficulties with a lot of things. I face opposition every day, but I didn't kill myself and now, thank God, I'm here.

  Nicki Minaj

  People, Thank God, Matter

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• If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in.

  Alan Moore

  Political, Liquid, Kind

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• We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Peace, War, Teaching

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• And by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposition and coalition alike. And I represent the entire people of Israel who say, 'Thank you, America.'' And we're friends of America, and we're the only reliable allies of America in the Middle East.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Thank You, Country, Israel

  "Israel entirely 'pro-America'". Interview with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• In Cleveland there is legislation moving forward to ban people from wearing pants that fit too low. However, there is lots of opposition from the plumber' union.

  Conan O'Brien

  Moving, People, Cleveland

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• The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.

  John Podhoretz

  Views, People, Intellectual

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• No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists.

  Vladimir Putin

  Powerful, Believe, Army

  "A Plea for Caution From Russia" by Vladimir Putin, www.nytimes.com. September 11, 2013.

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• 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

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.4, Ballantine Books

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• It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Humility, Self, Ideas

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