#public opinion

As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it. ↗

— William Westmoreland

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If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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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. ↗

— Augustus Hare

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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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I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world. ↗

— Anthony Holden

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From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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

— Hubert H. Humphrey

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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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