opposition response Quotes

[The Republicans] have come up with nothing. They say repeal and replace. That has alliteration.

If you're a Republican politician and you're seeing this guy [Donald Trump] saying crazy stuff and going up in the polls, what are you going to say, you're going to say equally crazy or maybe a little less crazy stuff.

Perhaps I am influenced by philosophies like the one at Chelsea which was 'If it isn't broken, change it' which saw us win three league titles in five years playing three different formations and tactical strategies so that the opposition could never keep up with our evolution at the time.

It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.

I think we need to push harder, we the Democrats, because it's an open door for the Republicans - prosperity centers.

Rebut the negative, and the opposing campaign has not merely lost a skirmish, it has suffered almost irreparable damage. An effective rebuttal makes it hard for the campaign whose ad is destroyed to be believed about anything ever again.

Hillary Clinton doesn't know how to counterprogram Trump, if you will. Hillary doesn't know how to go out and write her own narrative of the day. Hillary doesn't know whether to focus on herself or to criticize Trump or to go after Crazy Bernie. She doesn't know what to do. And the press doesn't, either.

The most effective sermons are those which make opposers of the Gospel bite their lips and gnash their teeth.

One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence.

That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously because I think our opposition, whoever they may be in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humour.