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In America, public opinion is the leader.


Frances Perkins
I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.
Bono
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Business leaders shape public opinion.


Marvin Bower
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Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.


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


Winston Churchill
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What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.
Alfred Russel Wallace
Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
Walter Bagehot
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I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them.
Curtis LeMay
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We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.


Marco Rubio
You cannot have Rwanda again because information would come out far more quickly about what is actually going on, and the public opinion would grow to the point where action would need to be taken.
Gordon Brown
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If public opinion still endorses military action that's one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it's not only impatience, but there are several other factors.
Hans Blix
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I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.
Tony Blair
Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
Henry A. Kissinger
This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion.
Stephen Harper
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And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.
Vicente Fox
It is often noted that it can be hard for democracies to fight wars because of changing public opinion.
Noah Feldman
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I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.


Dan Pfeiffer
An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.
Tullian Tchividjian
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Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.
Warren E. Burger
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.
William Ralph Inge
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