“The problem was, I enjoyed Question Period too much and loved the challenge it provided. Far from being a dreaded burden, it had become an exciting part of my life; opposition members attacked me, I fought back, I won or lost or held them to draw, and the next day we did it all over again.” ProblemNextLostChallengesToo MuchPeriodsMembersDrawsExcitingBurdenEnjoyedOppositionNext Day Author:Jean Chretien
“Every politician, every member of the clerical profession, ought to incur the reasonable suspicion of being an interested supporter of false doctrines, who becomes angry at opposition, and endeavors to cast an odium on free inquiry. Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.” ReasonTruthReligionPoliticsOughtPoliticianMembersAngryCastsProfessionDoctrineReasonableOppositionEndeavorFraudInvitesDreadFalsehoodSuspicionSupporterInquiryExamination Book:Lectures on the Elements of Political Economy ... Source: Lectures on the Elements of Political Economy ...
“Any man who takes Jesus Christ seriously becomes the target of the devil. Most church members do not give Satan enough trouble to arouse his opposition” MenGivingEnoughJesusChristChurchTroubleMembersDevilJesus ChristSatanOppositionTargetChurch Members Book:All the Days Source: All the Days
“If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and passionate members of his opposition, he'd have a hard time coming up with a better tool than Burning Man. Exile them to the wilderness, give them a culture in which alpha status requires months of focus and resource-consumptive preparation, provide them with metric tons of psychotropic confusicants, and then... ignore them. It's a pretty safe bet that they won't be out registering voters, or doing anything that might actually threaten electoral change, when they have an art car to build.” IfsMenGivingArtHardMightWantedCultureCreativeFocusCarMonthsSafeMembersResourcesToolsIntelligentPassionateBurningPreparationHard TimesOppositionWildernessVotersExileAlphasMetricsBurning Man Author:John Perry Barlow
“No senior politician can expect to have work-life balance. I'm afraid there are some jobs for which work-life balance inevitably goes out the window. If you want work-life balance you just have to accept that you can't be a senior member of a government, or for that matter a senior member of an opposition.” IfsWantMatterGovernmentJobsAcceptingBalancePoliticianMembersWindowOppositionSeniorWork Life BalanceLife Balance Author:Tony Abbott
“I was elected by the Democrats to be chair of the Veterans Committee, which I'm very proud of. And now am the rankings member on the Budget Committee, leader of the Democrats in opposition to the majority Republicans.” LeaderProudRepublicanMembersMajorityDemocratBudgetsOppositionChairsCommitteesVeteranRanking Author:Bernie Sanders
“It's easier for opposition members to condemn the government at the drop of a hat if they don't understand.” IfsGovernmentEasierMembersHatsOpposition Author:Jason Kenney
“For members who have only ever been in government, the negativity and aggressiveness of the opposition is easy to caricature.” GovernmentEasyMembersOppositionNegativityCaricaturesAggressiveness Author:Jason Kenney
“I've had a chance to meet some of my civil rights heroes and, more recently, members of the young generation around [Barack] Obama, people in their teens and twenties who were determined to make history and who were too idealistic to think that what they were trying to do might be impossible. They proved that visionary pragmatism can win over the majority. That comes from a particular place in your heart that generation Y is offering America. They just can't afford to be naive now, in terms of the ferocity of the opposition.” PeopleThinkingTryingHeartMightAmericaYoungWinningTermChanceRightsImpossibleGenerationsParticularHeroMembersTwentiesMajorityDeterminedCivil RightsBarackOppositionOfferingTeensNaiveVisionariesPragmatismIdealisticFerocityYoung GenerationGeneration Y Author:Van Jones
“The rubber hits the road if Trump somehow turns his sights on Canada, as he has with Mexico, Australia and Germany, and takes some gratuitous comments on Canada's laxity on security or that Canada is not pulling its weight and has to do more in NATO, and so on. At that point, the pressure is on Trudeau politically, both from the media in Canada, from the opposition, maybe from his own party members, to shoot back.” IfsTurnsPartySecurityMediaTrumpMembersWeightSightPressureGermanyCanadaOppositionAustraliaCommentMexicoPullingNatoRubber Author:Michael Kergin