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Tag Name "Oppose" (258)

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Betsy DeVos, for example, has shown that she’s flatly ignorant of an astounding amount of basic education policy. It might be possible to persuade two or three Republicans to oppose her on these grounds - but only if the entire confirmation process isn’t a pure partisan battle.
Kevin Drum
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All Jews, however, in proportion as they are one with the leaders and rulers of their race, will oppose the influence of the supernatural Life of Grace in society and will be an active ferment of Naturalism.
Denis Fahey
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I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
Eldridge Cleaver
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Conquer temptations by the patience and prayer. If you oppose them without these, you will fall all the more severely.
Marcus Eremita
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Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way a while and let it waste.
William Shakespeare
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The Spirit of man is like a kite, which rises by means of those very forces which seem to oppose its rise the tie that joins it to the earth, the opposing winds of temptation, and the weight of earth-born affections which it carries with it into the sky.
Coventry Patmore
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Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.
William Shenstone
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My personal credo as a libertarian conservative: I think all attempts to reform your fellow-citizens or tell them how to live their lives are arrogant and tyrannical. THAT'S why I oppose Leftism. I want people to be free to manage their own lives. Reform is just authoritarianism. People are not playthings for anybody's theories or obsessions.
John Ray
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I'm not sitting in judgment on whether or not libertarians can participate in a political process whose very nature they oppose.
Murray Bookchin
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If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose.
Ayn Rand
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Eventually you realize that not all opposing viewpoints come from people who oppose you.
Robert Breault
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What I want to make clear though is that we oppose terrorism in any form. However, any operation against terrorism should be under the framework of the United Nations and follow the fundamental principles of international laws.
Nong ?uc Manh
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I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.
Hugh Masekela
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The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
Barack Obama
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I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
Coretta Scott King
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I don't see how one can believe in organized religion. What does it mean to believe in an organization? One can join it, support it, oppose it, accept its doctrines or reject them. There are many kinds of organized religion. People associate themselves with some of them, or not, for all sorts of reasons, maybe belief in some of their doctrines
Noam Chomsky
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Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.
Bertrand Russell
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The regulation of commerce, it is true, is a new power but that seems to be an addition which few oppose and from which no apprehensions are entertained.
James Madison
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There will always be situations in which conflicts arise between individual and communal values - Catholic police officers deployed to enable women to enter abortion clinics without harassment and doctors who oppose performing abortions. No social role is free of such potential conflicts.
John Kleinig
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The Post-Dispatch will serve no party but the people be no organ of Republicanism, but the organ of truth will follow no causes bit its conclusions will not support the Administration, but criticize it will oppose all frauds and shams wherever or whatever they are will advocate principles and ideas rather than prejudices and partisanship.
Joseph Pulitzer
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The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
Edmund Burke
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I do not yet know if I will find a Romney presidency more acceptable on foreign policy. But I do know that I must oppose the most recent statements made by Mitt Romney in which he says he, as president, could take us to war unilaterally with Iran, without any approval from Congress.
Rand Paul
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Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example.
Jon Meacham
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People who oppose Obama are said to be racists - so I guess I'm a racist.
Herman Cain
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