Leadership Opposition Quotes

#1. We shall throw him out onto the streets, I promise you he'll be gone by morning.
Oh-no, you can't mean that-
Of course I don't. But you felt better for a moment there, didn't you?

Cassandra Clare

#2. Great leadership isn't shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.

Charles M. Blow

#3. If the cost of naming the enemy is diplomatically or politically unacceptable, then the war is not likely to go well.

George Friedman

#4. As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.

Bob Schaffer

#5. His supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show where the dangers are.

Walter Lippmann

#6. There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle ... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.

Peter Pace

#7. You can lead a horse to water, but they might prefer wiskey

Jeri Estes

#8. I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed.

Rahm Emanuel

#9. When Steven Spielberg comes to you and says, 'Hey do you want to write a movie about robots?' You just say yes.

Drew Goddard

#10. I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to.

Anne Campbell

#11. I'm not violent, I don't believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking out against injustice, is another form of vengeance.

Eva Gabrielsson

#12. The author defines professionalism as exemplified by his subjects in their mutual unwillingness to take expected opposition personally. They would not allow grudges to get in the way of more important business.

Chris Matthews

#13. Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.

Robert Browning

#14. Laughing at our friends, we avenge the disappointment they have caused.

Mason Cooley

#15. Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an amusement all the pleasure the season will afford them.

George Washington

#16. Courageous leaders face unpleasant and even devastating situations with equanimity, then act firmly to bring good from trouble, even if their action is unpopular. Leadership always faces natural human inertia and opposition. But courage follows through with a task until it is done.

J. Oswald Sanders

#17. I am leaving because I have to fight simultaneously a potential recurrence of cancer the Democratic leadership, a health care bill that's going to destroy this country, my opposition to it and a belief that my party has become what it became - what it campaigned against.

Eric Massa

#18. When Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait in 1990, I felt America's post-Cold War commitment to national principles and international leadership was on the line. I was dismayed by the wide opposition among my fellow Democrats. To me, their position was wrong.

Joe Lieberman

#19. Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#20. All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him may stroke his ego.

Criss Jami

#21. The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life

Michael J. Fox