Quotes about Disfavor

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Tacitus

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

David Hume

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.

Barack Obama

There is no person in this town who is doing particularly well at the moment when it comes to the opinions of the American people.

The president had not only sunk I the polls, but for the first time only a minority then thought that he was trustworthy. The Congress was even lower in public esteem. The approval for the Congressional Republicans was down to only 9 percent—the lowest since the poll had been taken.