#oppose

Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#cynically #disaster #example #favor #for example

We are proud to say we are racist and hate to see Whites fighting each other. I oppose the Wars. ↗

— Tom Metzger

#fighting #hate #i #oppose #other

I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#away #being #communicate #daily #daily lives

The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief. ↗

— Dick Morris

#burden #cannot #class #class warfare #cuts

I'm trying to figure out the trick of working to live as opposed to living to work, but I don't know if I've quite stumbled upon it just yet. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

#i #just #know #live #living

When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don't like to have a situation placed over my head. ↗

— Bill Murray

#chances #had #handle #head #i

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#doing #interested #just #opposed #saying

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. ↗

— Barack Obama

#dumb #i #i am #oppose #opposed

I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is. ↗

— James Otis

#day #dying #faculties #given #god

I turned down a lot of easier opportunities in order to go for the things that I really and ultimately wanted to do. And what's really nice is that it's starting to work. I've been an actor for coming up on 14 years now and the level of activity that's taking place now is a culmination of a slow cooker approach to as opposed to a microwave. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#actor #approach #been #coming #culmination