Presidential Opposition Quotes

A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.

The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here.

Teenagers should never fear for their safety when they join their families to support - or oppose - the President.

You cant just be against the president.

A president just can't make much showing against congress. They lay awake nights, thinking up things to be against the president on.

For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition.

Why should I reward someone who doesn’t like the President, so they can use funds to try to campaign against the President.

Well, our job is to bash the President, that's what we do almost …

I don't think we live in a place where we don't want people to be able to say when they disagree with the president or incoming administration.

You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.

You don't like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election. Push to change it. But don't break it. Don't break what our predecessors spent over two centuries building. That's not being faithful to what this country's about.

When a president decides he's going to do something, a vast array of forces contrary to his purpose begin to organize to thwart him.

If you're seeking progress, all presidents are the opposition. You're just fighting different kinds of battles -

In the 1990s, there was [Bill] Clinton derangement syndrome. Then, we had [George W.] Bush and [Barack] Obama derangement syndromes, back in the first 16 years of this century.And now, we might be seeing [Donald]Trump derangement syndrome? By that, we mean this. The feeling that no matter what the president does, the left or right or whoever is out of power, is alarmed, outraged and distraught and they're going to let you know no matter what.

Typically in politics it is easier for the left to mobilize against a Republican president than it is to mobilize against a Democratic president, even in the cases when the Republican president or Democratic president are pushing the same exact thing.

We're red, white and blue, and President Obama, we are through with you.

Our Keystone legislation received strong bipartisan support in the Senate. Although it didn't receive the 60 votes necessary for passage, 56 senators - a majority - voted in favor of the bill. Despite President Obama's actively lobbying against the bill, we still won the support of 11 Democrats.

Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president.

And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.

It takes a tough, stand-up governor to stand up to the president of the United States - speaking out against the president, speaking out against his policies and, more than that, having actual policies that will help expand health care while... Trump is trying to diminish it for Illinois families.

I do think that there is pressure in various constituencies to reject the president.

The last thing you want to do is go up against someone in your own party and certainly your own president.

The presidency is a big job and there are some people who don't always wish him well. There are those who throw banana peels in his way hoping he'll slip.