Class Quote by Dawn Foster

Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.

— George F. Kennan

Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond…

— Alan Blinder

Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion

— Nicolas Gomez Davila

People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.

— Aaron Carter

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

— Robert Peel

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

— Winston Churchill

Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing

— Henrik Ibsen

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

— Albert Einstein

public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good.

— Sybille Bedford

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

— Bruce Jackson