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American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

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

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people.

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

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.

Public opinion in this country is everything.

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

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.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!

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

In America, public opinion is the leader.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.