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Transactional politics requires us to be pragmatic about current realities and the state of public opinion. It's all about getting the best result possible given the circumstances here and now.
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A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.
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In America, public opinion is the leader.


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Business leaders shape public opinion.


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Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.


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


Winston Churchill
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One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
Douglas MacArthur
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We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.


Marco Rubio
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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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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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
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.
George Bancroft
The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you.
Rush Limbaugh
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