I think we are at a time where horribly unpopular things have to be done.

But the budget plan provides those committees with political cover for doing unpopular things.

He is the man they bring in to do unpopular things.

"In those days, that was a very unpopular thing to do," Stump says.

It was a very unpopular thing to do, in the empire at large.

You can't follow the polls and also do the unpopular thing.

The government will almost certainly have to do some unpopular things to the welfare state.

For they did the most unpopular thing that men can do; they started a popular movement.

This is why sometimes governments have to do unpopular things.

I've had to do a number of unpopular things here in the last 11 months, and it's probably not over.