Minority Party Quotes

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

I'm a legislator, but it's hard to legislate when my party's out of power.

Historically, the minority party in Congress votes against raising the debt limit, forcing the majority party to whip its members into casting politically painful votes in favor.

If the Republican Party does not learn to understand unmarried women as the political force and potent voting bloc that they have become, we risk becoming the minority party.

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

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

I am for the Party that is out of Power

The Lib-Dems are sidekicks. They were born to be sidekicks and that's what they should concentrate on being.

If you're a minority party that doesn't control any branch of government, you're more likely to be ignored.

The Republican Party among the public is a minority party.

The impulse to scapegoat and belittle threatens to turn us into a fearful, backward-looking people. In the case of the Republican Party, those things also threaten to turn us into a fearful, backward-looking minority party.

I found, in the Senate, you can have significant impact whether you're in the minority party or the majority party, and a lot of it goes back to... that you really have to be able to count to 60.

In theory, the filibuster helps whichever party is in the minority in the Senate. In practice, it is the Republicans who have disproportionately used it to engage in cynical and anti-democratic obstructionism whenever they find themselves in the minority.

Most of my time as a legislator, I served in the minority. So I'm used to getting the heel of a loaf of bread.