Andrew Scheer Quotes

I'm not that comfortable doing polemic or being strident.

I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches.

When I was younger, I was very vocal to the point of being strident in my views.

People get very put out when someone is as forceful in their views and in their methods as George is.

Christopher Hitchens was a great warrior, a magnificent orator, a pugilist and a gentleman. He was kind, but he took no prisoners when arguing with idiots.

I've always been opinionated, unfortunately, to my mother's disappointment.

There are a lot of people who will tell you I'm very ruthless. I'm very fierce. If I feel I'm right, if I feel I've been violated, then I am like a warrior from hell!

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

Some people when they get older are so firm in their beliefs that you'll never move them.

I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.

The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.

People have confused playing devil's advocate with being intelligent.

I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.

I'm very opinionated.

I've been called 'hardheaded,' 'obstinate,' 'unreasonable,' etc.

When I became finance minister, they called me Okonjo-Wahala - or 'Trouble Woman.' It means 'I give you hell.' But I don't care what names they call me. I'm a fighter; I'm very focused on what I'm doing, and relentless in what I want to achieve, almost to a fault. If you get in my way, you get kicked.

I'm from Boston, and I'm hard-headed, opinionated and a good arguer.

I am pretty rigid. It’s very hard for me to compromise on things I feel strongly about.

We are a fiercely argumentative lot.

I have a little bit more of an edge to me.

People say I'm shrill and strident.

I was a brash player, and I spoke my mind on the court.

I think the aggressive and loud way that I played in the championship game is kind of polarizing; you either love it or you hate it.