Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

No government can long be secure without a formidable Opposition.

We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.

Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.

Only the Liberal Democrats have probed the government's failings consistently, thoroughly and effectively.

It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'.

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.

Parliament of the country is the repository of the sovereign will of the people, and its successful functioning is a joint responsibility of both the government and the Opposition.

The leader of a political party in a country like ours is so exposed that his enemies become as numerous and formidable as his friends.

It is the steady abuse of power in other governments which renders that of opposition always the popular party.

I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.

You cannot have an opposition party unless it is opposed to the people in power.

Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amok by hamstringing it.

I prefer the Greens to remain an opposition party that's able to hold the government to account.

It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'; that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration as much a part of the polity as administration itself. This critical opposition is the consequence of cabinet government.

PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom - and of whom only - it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

You've got to remember that it's a two horse race. So when the Government is doing badly the Opposition is doing better and vice versa.

Normally, the opposition gets more media space and even the people find it interesting to listen to voices against the government of the day.

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be any danger of our government running America in the wrong way.

We think, in America, that it is necessary to introduce the people into every department of government, as far as they are capable of exercising it, and that this is the only way to ensure a long continued and honest administration of its powers.

Thank God for the founding fathers, who set up three separate branches of government. And the media acting as the Fourth Estate.

My critics always forget to mention that I was democratically elected, the others were not. Everyone in Uganda can challenge me, everyone can vote, the elections are free. Not many countries have achieved what we did.

[Bill] Clinton was able to defeat conservatives, Republicans, at every turn. And so he was given wide latitude, leeway. He could do whatever he wanted and not be condemned for it. But young people today are not prone to rewarding that kind of behavior.

The first Rudiments of Morality, broach'd by skilful Politicians, to render Men useful to each other as well as tractable, were chiefly contrived that the Ambitious might reap the more Benefit from, and govern vast Numbers of them with the greater Ease and Security.