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
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
A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
As a public official, when I take a position, I stand up to explain and defend it. I file annual financial disclosures,… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
Politicians around the world are very different, but they all have one thing in common: The first thing they respond to is… — Yair Lapid Copy Share Image
It seems clear to me that marriage ought to be constituted by children, and relations not involving children ought to be ignored… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Obama administration leaks classified information continuously. They do it to glorify the President, or manipulate public opinion, or even to help… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Don't talk to me about appealing to the public. I am done with the public, for the present anyway. The public reads… — J. P. Morgan Copy Share Image
It is only through an abandonment of the idea that those entrusted with power have an exclusive right to decide upon war,… — Frederic C. Howe Copy Share Image
“For decades, the environmental movement had enjoyed bipartisan support. As public opinion mounted in favor of climate action, however, the fossil fuel… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
I'm reading the way a lot of technology executives have decried 'gatekeepers' and 'traditional media,' and that one of the promises of… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups.… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
They've (Israel) lost the battle for public opinion. They claim it's because American Jews know too little.. I claim it's because they… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“There’s a voice that says: "So what?" It’s not my voice, it’s probably not yours, but it makes itself heard in the… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“No matter what they do, our elected representatives don’t give a fuck anymore about public opinion! They take drugs, frequent whores, rob,… — Andrea Camilleri Copy Share Image
If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another; strike out for yourself; don't listen… — Elizabeth von Arnim 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
“LIED-ABOUT WARS Advertising campaigns, marketing schemes. The target is public opinion. Wars are sold the same way cars are, by lying. In… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
I think polling is the best way of gauging public opinion - doing something that's independent, that's quantitative, that doesn't give just… — Andrew Kohut Copy Share Image
“There are people everywhere who form a Fourth World, or a diaspora of their own. They are the lordly ones! They come… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
“...it was just public opinion in an acute state of indigestion.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion. — Dan Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
