Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.
Everybody on this floor wants to send the same loud and clear message: that Congress is united in its opposition to terror and we are all deeply concerned about the future and security of our close friend and ally, Israel.
Frankly, I want to be in government with Caroline Lucas, not against her - and certainly not in permanent opposition.
We want to show Singaporeans that if you vote in an opposition party, it doesn't mean your town is going to descend into chaos.
We need variations, variations in not just attempt but in flickers' attempts as well. I mean, a flicker needs to use different angles, pace to keep the opposition defence guessing.
To a certain extent, platforms are platitudes that you test when you get to govern. You have to run those priorities up against the opposition and decide what's most important.
I was leader of the Opposition when Vajpayee was PM. We attacked policies, not personalities, neither inside or outside the House.
Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about the Bill of Rights most of the time.
You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.
Whenever there is something revolutionary and new, there is opposition. There are difficulties in all parties, perhaps in my party, too.