They are lying every day. They are lying always, and mainly they are lying to their public opinion — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war. — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times. — Warren E Burger Copy Share Image
In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in… — George Washington Copy Share Image
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
“Many marriages would have been laid to rest a long time ago, if they were not on a life-support machine called other… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it. — William Westmoreland Copy Share Image
When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In a democratic society, as Max Weber said, what is possible is only possible because some people have demanded the impossible. The… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
“The earth will probably sink and drown; but at least it will be the result of generally acknowledged political and economic ideas,… — Karel Čapek Copy Share Image
The Russians are bent on world dominance, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
When I had the job of police commissioner, 20 years ago, I was more sensitive, more cognizant of complaints and concerned about… — Raymond Kelly Copy Share Image
So Republican candidates bash Obamacare and move up in the polls. Given that public opinion remains firmly against the health care law… — Byron York Copy Share Image
“All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“We have a flabby public opinion which would wring its hands in anguish if we took the labor leader by the scruff… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“On coming to America I had the same hopes as have most European immigrants and the same disillusionment, though the latter affected… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Edward Tylor noted in 1874 that the religions of “savage” societies were “almost devoid of that ethical element which to the educated… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“The proliferation of material means that people might start to become selective about what they consume and, if my instincts are correct,… — Una McCormack Copy Share Image
“Man is complete in himself. When they go into the world, the world will disagree with them. That is inevitable. The world… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“For the most part, the evidence shows that individual Americans do not care a great deal about politics and are rather poorly… — Edward S. Greenberg Copy Share Image
The frightening aspect is that it's part of a larger effort from the Pentagon to tear down the wall between public affairs… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
“The so-called paradox of freedom is the argument that freedom in the sense of absence of any constraining control must lead to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our researchers into Public Opinion are content That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace,… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Public opinion is to an unconventional idea … what abortion is to sperm.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs. — Frank B. Kellogg Copy Share Image
What I and other commentators do is attempt to move the public opinion. We try to change minds. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
