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The Founding Fathers provided a way to reverse unpopular Supreme Court decisions: a constitutional amendment.
What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.
Dr. King was unpopular while he was alive - he's only popular now because he's dead and not a threat to anyone.
I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more, and I can take more unpopular decisions.
Too many politicians are so worried about getting re-elected that they fear taking an unpopular position. I don't.
When I took over in 2000, Odisha was in a terrible financial state due to various policies, some of them unpopular.
History shows that any attempt by government to interfere in the consumption of salt is always extremely unpopular.
When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.
You've got to ensure that the holders of an opinion, however unpopular, are allowed to put across their points of view.
If you drop a channel, you're incredibly unpopular, and if you pass along a rate increase, you're incredibly unpopular.
President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right.
I try to buy shares of unpopular companies when they look like road kill and sell them when they've been polished up a bit.
To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path.
'Cosmopolitan' used to publish five covers across the U.S. so that if one was unpopular, it wouldn't tank their entire sales.
A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.
When one party is really unpopular, like the Conservatives in 1997, AV can really skew the result disproportionately against them.
When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time.
We need an honest politician in charge who doesn't care whether they are re-elected and is prepared to make the unpopular decisions.
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.
I am not aiming to be unpopular. I am aiming to get good results, and sometimes you need to stick your elbows out to get those results.
I think when the military ousts a sitting president, even if the sitting president is deeply unpopular, that's the definition of a coup.
Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.
Geek culture is all about being super passionate about your interests and not afraid to express them, even if your interests are unpopular.
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.
Hope - I wanted to give to that to the people. When you do that, you have to be willing to be unpopular. It's not the formula for radio songs.
I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause.
By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.
I just did what I did and I still am. It makes you unpopular, maybe for a lifetime, but I'd rather do that than be popular and doubt what I am.
Trump in particular was such an unpopular candidate, because he's so anti communities of color, and we're a minority majority state, are you kidding?
President Obama has not only failed to uphold several of our nation's laws, he has vowed to continue to do so in order to enact his unpopular agenda.
Commitment to the rule of law provides a basic assurance that people can know what to expect whether what they do is popular or unpopular at the time.
Some conservatives say that whether it's popular or unpopular, imposing strict limits on immigration is the right thing to do, and it must be defended.
At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle. It's a hard feeling to shake off. Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
I am thrilled and proud of Benjamin Watson for speaking up on behalf of innocent black lives, traditionally an unpopular stance in the mainstream media.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
The thing that's been inhibiting long-form investigative reporting is fear - fear of being sued, of being unpopular, of being criticized by very powerful groups.
I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.
When President George W. Bush attempted to reform Social Security, that proposal was more unpopular with Americans than the Iraq war. People love their entitlements.
I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions off the top of my head but they nevertheless resented because of that.
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.
When I was defense minister, I was very popular, and now that I'm president, I'm unpopular because I'm trying to make peace. It's much easier to make war and get trophies.
A lot of what inspired many musicians is celebrating differences, and people relate to that - more people feel like the unpopular, freaky one than the one in the in-crowd.
The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.
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.
I am not concerned about getting reelected. I can make the unpopular but necessary decision. Your focus from day one is on your legacy rather than political considerations.
You've got to make tough decisions, sometimes unpopular decisions... Whatever it is, if it's the right move at the right time, you've got to be also willing to make mistakes.
A society in which people feel they have a legitimate right to stop someone expressing their views on campus simply because they are unfashionable or unpopular is rather chilling.
President Obama did something that no Democrat's done since Franklin Roosevelt: that is, get a majority vote in Ohio twice. So I don't really buy that his policy is that unpopular.
I wish I was less good-looking and more unpopular. Then I could get into politics and use my pent-up resentment about being ugly and unpopular to systematically destroy the country.
Trump might become deeply unpopular in the way that I, with some people, am deeply unpopular, but that doesn't mean that we don't get things done. You can be unpopular and successful.