Top 44 Adversaries Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Adversaries Quotes from famous people such as Jim Mattis, Robert Teeter, Michael Hayden, Darren Shan, Kevin McCarthy, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

In an interconnected age when opportunistic adversaries

In an interconnected age when opportunistic adversaries can work in tandem to destroy stability and prosperity, our country needs to regain its strategic footing. We need to bring the clarity to our efforts before we lose the confidence of the American people and the support of potential allies.
Jim Mattis
While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader.
Robert Teeter
Intelligence collection is not confined to the communications of adversaries or of the guilty. Rather, it’s about gaining information otherwise unavailable that would help keep Americans safe and free.
Michael Hayden
My books always focus on the response of the characters to extreme events. As dark as they get, they are ultimately positive, uplifting books about children who take control of their lives and overcome great adversaries. I think that is why they have been so popular.
Darren Shan
The principles that should guide American foreign policy are simple: the world is safer when America leads, only strength ensures peace and freedom, and America must stand with its allies and challenge its adversaries.
Kevin McCarthy
Our adversaries – our Democratic adversaries – like to be able to portray the Republican Party as a bunch of wingnuts – narrow based, always have some agenda that’s not attractive to the public… That’s easier for them, and more fun, than dealing with their own problems. And I think their problems are significant.
Dick Cheney
We cannot afford to have a president who thinks he’s some sort of global community organizer standing over America on one side and our adversaries on the other. America must have a Commander in Chief. Not a global community organizer.
Liz Cheney
It would be extremely naive to conclude anything other than the following: America’s most vital secrets are in the hands of our adversaries because Secretary Clinton intentionally avoided using official government communication systems.
Mike Pompeo
Our adversaries are trying to undermine our country on a persistent and regular basis, whether it’s election season or not.
Christopher A. Wray
Every character needs an adversary – one who is both challenging and a contrast for the hero. The best adversaries reveal something about the character they’re contrasting.
Greg Rucka
CrowdStrike stands fully by its analysis and findings identifying two separate Russian intelligence-affiliated adversaries present in the DNC network in May 2016.
Dmitri Alperovitch
I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.
Darrell Royal
I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.
Gerald R. Ford
Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don’t want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies.
Evo Morales
Men are fighting… because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.
Ludwig von Mises
The Internet allows foreign adversaries to attack America in new and unexpected ways. Free and fair elections are hard-fought and contentious. There will always be adversaries who work to exacerbate domestic differences and try to confuse, divide, and conquer us.
Rod Rosenstein
Each FBI employee understands that to defeat the key threats facing our nation, we must constantly strive to be more efficient and more effective. Just as our adversaries continue to evolve, so, too, must the FBI.
James Comey
U.S. adversaries exploit power gaps. It’s easier for Russia to invade Ukraine with irregular forces out of uniform, the so-called ‘little green men,’ than to send a conventional army that would challenge NATO.
David Ignatius
However, the Bible is called the Word of God because the whole transcript is an inspired, faithful, and infallible record of what God determined essential for us to know about Himself, the cosmos in which we live, our spiritual allies and adversaries, and our fellow man.
Walter Martin
In taking a very sober view of where this president is taking this country, the divisions, the catering to our adversaries, the undermining of national security interests, that I am absolutely a never-Trumper.
Alexander Vindman
Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.
Henry Wotton
Simply keeping pace with China is not enough. We’ve got to outpace all our adversaries.
Tommy Tuberville
The safety and security of all Americans is at stake in Ukraine and anywhere that our adversaries threaten the cause of freedom.
Conor Lamb
Cyberespionage and cyberattack is exploding from our adversaries inside our country. We don’t seem capable of stopping it.
Jack Keane
Just as our adversaries and threats continue to evolve, so, too, must the FBI. The key to this evolution lies with our greatest assets: our people and our partnerships. Every FBI professional understands that thwarting the threats facing our nation means constantly striving to be more effective and more efficient.
James Comey
The generational change in our government should not give hope to the adversaries of the revolution. We are continuity, not a rupture.
Miguel Diaz-Canel
President Trump was clear that keeping America First meant making sure we are not dependent on foreign adversaries for supplies and resources that are key to our survival.
Ronny Jackson
I’m not above the law. No one is. But we don’t want to live in a society where Lady Justice has one eye open and winks at her friends and casts the evil eye at her adversaries. When will it stop?
Dinesh D’Souza
In the 21st century, our adversaries will continue to use cyberattacks against us. We need to be prepared to defend our networks against this growing threat to our democracy, especially the most fundamental part of our political system: our elections.
Amy Klobuchar
The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaida, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally intense focus on one purported ally: Pakistan.
Barton Gellman
My mother says that I have abnormal capacity to tolerate pain. It’s the first step to win over adversaries.
Sandeep Singh
You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for

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.
Cyrus Vance
America is back’ is a divisive, foolish slogan. It only baffles America’s allies and emboldens our adversaries.
Miranda Devine
Hillary Clinton exposed our nation’s most sensitive national security secrets to foreign adversaries.
Tom Cotton
We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.
Alice Walker
I have a lot to say about my confidence, my fears, my adversaries, my ambitions, my goals and failures.
Shahid Afridi
I think, over my career, if you look at it in WWE, Sheamus has always been one of my biggest adversaries and one of the ones I would like to say I had some very memorable bouts with. It’s definitely fun to be in the ring with him.
Cesaro
Sometimes we wonder whether or not our adversaries have technologies that are a little bit further down the road than we thought or that we realized.
John Ratcliffe
If the black vote does not come out in big numbers in the age of Ferguson and voter ID, it will empower our adversaries and enhance our marginalization.
Al Sharpton
We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner – by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.
Theodore C. Sorensen
Our adversaries no long fear us, and our enemies are plotting against us.
Michael McCaul
The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
Mark Twain
We are tested every single day in this Biden administration, by other – by our adversaries, and every day Joe Biden fails that test and it’s just going to keep getting worse and worse.
Ronny Jackson
Just as our adversaries evolve, so, too, must the FBI.
Christopher A. Wray