Opponent criticism Quotes

My opponents are the people who gave up our borders.

You've got to attract interest in your candidate. The problem when you're running far behind is that you've got to move through those positive phases very quickly. Then, you have to draw attention to the other guy. You've got to create interest in why you differ from him and you've got to create a desire to remove him.

If you don't have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone to run from.

I don't think its particularly smart [in a campaign] to spend your time responding to the other candidate.

I think I should I have beaten Ricky Hatton. I never thought he was so great, I really think I have the style to beat him. I never thought he was that good, you know.

I think all of my opponents say that, I gas out or whatever. They have to say something about me.

I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down.

Our opponent and many in Congress criticized our decision to end the Iraq war.

Why should I ? I don't need to run down my opponent through filthy language in order to win. The voters don't expect this from their representatives.

I never say bad things about my opponent.

I'm concerned about the negative aspect of political campaigning in american nation, which is a new phenomenon. When I ran for president against Gerald Ford and later against Ronald Reagan we never referred to each other except as 'my distinguished opponent'. And had we criticised personally our opponent it would have been political suicide, we would have been castigated and condemned for it.

Our opponents say more children are living in poverty than when we came into office. And that's probably right.

One of my opponents [Romney] recently said that it would take an act of God for me to win this primary. I agree with him.

We are so ready to find evidence agaist our political opponents that it snuffs out our charity and possible doubt.

The media and my opponent discuss one thing and only one thing, the needs of people living here illegally. In many cases, by the way, they're treated better than our vets.

I don't think it's really good once you've lost an election to sit around, watch your former opponent, and swipe at them.

My opponent has all the intellectual rigor of an amoeba.

You can't always expect us to trash our opponents.

There's no disputing that for pols, the Internet is a great way to connect with people and raise some cash and post 'Sopranos' parodies or play your opponent's macaca moments. But in a 'net root' sense, it's pretty useless for getting someone elected.

A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents - America chief among them - by their worst deeds.

I get sick ... not because of drink but because I am forced to listen to the ranting of my honourable opponent.

What we saw with both Donald Trump and Marco Rubio, that their response, whenever you point to anything in their record, is just to yell, "Liar, liar, liar," and to get very personal and to make direct character attacks. And my approach, from the very beginning of this President's campaign, starting a year ago in 2015, is that I will not respond in kind. I do not intend to insult any of the candidates.

For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself.

Maidana is one-dimensional and not in my league. I'm a Ferrari and he's a go-kart, and my fans will see that.

Your teaching must have the integrity of serious, sound words to which no one can take exception. If it does, no opponent will be able to find anything bad to say about us, and hostility will yield to shame.