Vince Cable

I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.

British Politician

Christopher Lasch

A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

American Historian

Shirley Chisholm

I stand before you today to repudiate the ridiculous notion that the American people will not vote for qualified candidates simply because he is not white or because she is not a male.

American Politician

Gordon W. Allport

It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.

American Psychologist

Jean Genet

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.

French Dramatist

Herbert Hoover

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

American President

Marianne Williamson

Today, most Americans are too cynical, or tired, or both, to even approximate our Founders' courageous repudiation of injustice.

American Author

Norman Finkelstein

No doubt one can, in light of further study and life experience, come to repudiate past convictions.

American Educator

Ronald Reagan

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

Chuck Schumer

The 2014 election was not a repudiation of government in general.

Use 'repudiate' to show strong disapproval or dissociation from policies or social views.

Social Disassociation

'Repudiate' suggests a firm rejection and often implies that you think something isn't worthy of consideration.

Strong Rejection

'Repudiate' can be a formal way to deny accusations or responsibility, often used in legal or official statements.

Denying Accusations

It implies that what's being denied lacks credibility or truth from the speaker's perspective.

Questioning Validity

When related to debt, 'repudiate' means a refusal to fulfill financial obligations, which may have legal repercussions.

Financial Disavowal

'Repudiate' implies a clear cut from a relationship or association, indicating no further connection.

Severing Ties

 in the common, instinctive wisdom of the plain people. And the essential virtue of that people is always being threatened by outsiders. And he's got a strategy for how to get there. He's got a series of policies to bring the people up and repudiate the outsiders,