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Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

I will run against anybody.

It's always good to go against your friends, especially when you come out victorious.

I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.

All 50 states had the same national economy. And on virtually any measurement you wish to look at, Michigan has moved up and improved against the others.

People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.

Universal suffrage is the only guarantee against despotism.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting.

In fact, if you have a crime committed against you, and you go to have hypnosis, you can't testify. Because there's no way to test what is real, what's fact, what's fantasy.

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.

Darwin (1859) recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular.

As legislators and as Members of Congress, it is our obligation to speak up for those who are being ignored in our society. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) does just that.

Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.

Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.

We've gotten a long way on missile defense. We know how to do it. We know how to take down incoming warheads, but we need to do a lot more work in order to be - to deploy a system that'll defend the United States against those kinds of limited strikes that might be possible by a nuclear armed North Korea or Iran.

Mr. Speaker, in the years since we enacted our attack against Iraq, the threat from Iran has only grown more difficult, and our capacity to meet that threat actually has diminished. It is one of the reasons many of us opposed that action against Iraq.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.

In other words, for every 10 enemy you kill you bring on 20 new recruits to their anti-coalition cause then essentially you are working against yourself.

Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged.

I always tell people I'm running against two Democrats, one that admits it and one that does not.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.

Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.