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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
Patricia Ireland
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I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.
Benjamin Spock
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Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country.
Tony Randall
I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they do is hold roundtables and release political statements, which is all well and good. But there are concrete things that need to get done in order to achieve the basic goal of every opposition politician.
Alexei Navalny
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I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.
Ricardo Montalban
Tags: Work Religion You
Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.
John Abizaid
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All government, of course, is against liberty.


H. L. Mencken
I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm not going to work against my people. They've suffered enough.
Naomi Campbell
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For me, opposition is just another opposition.


Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.
Peter DeFazio
Tags: Women Men War
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As a government employee, you can't testify against the government.


James Hansen
Congress hasn't declared war on the countries - the majority of them are our allies - but without asking for public permission, NSA is running network operations against them that affect millions of innocent people. And for what? So we can have secret access to a computer in a country we're not even fighting?
Edward Snowden
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I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.


Jack Kemp
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To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.


Christopher Hitchens
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I was faced more with apathy than opposition.


Adrian Cronauer
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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.


Al Franken
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Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.


Jane Austen
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An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.


Bainbridge Colby
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To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition.


Evan Osnos
I'm against high taxes. But we certainly cannot be so anorexic in government that we cannot function.
Robert J. Bentley