Al Sharpton Quotes

The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.

The leaders of a party, or those who are so called, have but little sway over their followers, particularly when not in Government, and when they have it not in their power to threaten them with any very serious consequences

Minority parties don’t have to be responsible and have policies. Their job is to throw rocks. If they put forth policies they lose whatever advantage that they can have as then they too will be attacked.

As the loyal opposition we can be loyal and still generate a lot of opposition.

Governments propose, and oppositions dispose.

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

All [political] parties, without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.

We will govern as if we had a majority. You simply carry on with your agenda.

The duty of an Opposition is to oppose.

The term Party is applied equally to the peaceful parties of America and to the Communist Party of Russia, the Nazi Party of Germany, and the Fascist Party of Italy. The methodology of these parties varies, but their fundamental objective-to place and keep their leaders in control of the government - is the same.

No government can long be secure without a formidable Opposition.

I cannot serve in the government and at the same time be in opposition to it.

The delusion of the people is necessary to the dominant party. I see the extent to which that delusion has been already carried, and I see there is no length to which it may not be pushed by a party in possession of the revenues and the legal authorities of the United States

What is government but an arrangement by which the many accept the authority of the few?

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

I am for the Party that is out of Power

… new truths are often struck out by the collision of parties, in the eagerness of controversy, which otherwise would have lain hid, The divine disapprobation of a form of government by kings, I take to be one of this sort of truths.

In every sort of politics, in history, it has its own problems, its leaders, its own opposition.

If you're an opposition party, you are actively using the power you have to oppose the ideas of the other party.

To have opposition ? We have it, and you can go and meet with them. We have some of them within the government, we have some of them outside the government. They are opposition. We have it.

There is no question that the minority party always makes a sport of going after the governor.

Charles Miller cannot bring down my government.

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

My fate is to be President of the Republic - or leader of the opposition.

In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it.