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
To straddle the middle ground and win elections, we have to be in charge of the political agenda. This can only be… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Years ago, it wasn't easy to communicate, and it wasn't easy to spread information. We were limited to the few media outlets… — Yasmine Elmasri Copy Share Image
Real political issues cannot be manufactured by the leaders of political parties, and real ones cannot be evaded by political parties. The… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
“The inquisition of public opinion overwhelms in practice the freedom asserted by the laws in theory.” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.” — Suetonius Copy Share Image
“I won't ask you to tell me who has spoken ill of me, but I would like to know who has spoken… — Santiago Roncagliolo Copy Share Image
Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“It took guts to ignore public opinion and do what you thought was right.” — Randy Singer Copy Share Image
Non-co-operation is the quickest method of creating public opinion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.] — Juvenal Copy Share Image
“Most Russian girls usually only go in for Platonic attachments with never a thought of marriage. And Platonic love is the most… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
In these days of intellectual awakening and steadily asserting public opinion, the holy places of the Hindus, their condition, and method of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad… — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
“From our experience of the past and our literature of the past we have derived a naïve faith in the power of… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You beg for happiness in life, but security is more important to you, even if it costs you your spine or your… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
You can't forge a new sort of consensus, you can't forge public opinion, by following public opinion. — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
