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Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a trait not normally associated with nerves of steel. ↗

— Fred Barnes

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True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity. ↗

— Bo Bennett

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The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. ↗

— Carrie Chapman Catt

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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own. ↗

— Fran Drescher

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Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind. ↗