#unpopular

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection. ↗

— Neal Boortz

#free #free speech #meant #needs #popular

The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular. ↗

— Geraldo Rivera

#journalism #popular #sticking #unpopular #up

You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a courageous decision that's unpopular. ↗

— Anthony Kennedy

#bar #courageous #decision #defense #judge

Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable. ↗

— Stevie Smith

#lonely #love #loving #miserable #misery

Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services. ↗

— Bill Delahunt

#both #choice #cuts #drastic #education

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for. ↗

— David Attenborough

#decisions #electorate #environment #get #history

The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy to heart, and that sometimes means being unpopular. But we have to do the right thing. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#do the right thing #economy #federal #heart #interest

My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it. ↗

— Rose Bird

#politically #right #role #smart #under

Look, none of the artists who I admire or respect have ever shied away from a role because it might make them unpopular with somebody. ↗

— Matt Bomer

#artists #away #because #ever #i

Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry. ↗

— Laura Ingraham

#congress #consent #doing #feel #folks