"The duty of an Opposition is to oppose."

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Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

Lord Randolph Churchill

#Politics Quotes #Duty Quotes #Opposition Quotes

“Some things in life you just can't ride around”
“Once upon a time, I thought denial was a river in Egypt. It's actually the attitude of the Abbott government.”

Source : "Abbott Government still behaving like an opposition: Shorten". Interview with Louise Yaxley, www.abc.net.au. December 1, 2014.
“We hated the Giants. We just hated the uniform.”
“Our responsibility to ourselves comes first -- because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others!”
“If I'm a leader, I have a mission.”
“Casablanca is back on the big screen in a new print and looks and sounds better as time goes by. It is the product of numerous accidents, all of them happy, and I laugh, cry and have my better instincts appealed to whenever I see it.”

Source : "Casablanca" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2007.
“I really didn't feel challenged anymore. I wanted to learn something and be excited again... While it can be a family - that environment is actually a family - in the sense that also you sometimes hate each other, you can't stand being around each other and grudges are held... I was getting cranky on 'Criminal Minds.”
“You are as close to God as you choose to be.”

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