Opponents Quotes - Page 9

I'm not scared of any opponent. I fight who I want to fight.

I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite certain that he had isolated the only real one. This vulgar method, which is now the norm and the standard in much non-Left journalism as well, is designed to have the effect of making any noisy moron into a master analyst.

I wouldn't like to make anybody cry, I don't dislike anybody. It doesn't even matter - the opponent is always faceless.

War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.

Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.

Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.

Racing is licking your opponent's plate clean before starting on your own

We'll do whatever it takes to score as many points as we can-and definitely one more point than the opponent.

If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it.

The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable.

Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left.

You have to make lots of birdies and give your opponent no chance.

If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.

I win on my merits; my opponents win by cheating.

The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. They are in a lose/lose situation. If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. So here is a dilemma which others have suffered before us, and for which as far as I can see there is simply no escape.

If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there own.

Our opponents say more children are living in poverty than when we came into office. And that's probably right.

Never back down, never fear anyone, for the best opponents will help you to play your best.

Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.

For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself.

The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.