#public opinion

The course of business shapes public opinion. ↗

— Marvin Bower

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The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

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While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I've seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them. ↗

— Paul Bremer

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Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense. ↗

— George Gallup

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Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation. ↗

— Charles Evans Hughes

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

— Robert Peel

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In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public. ↗

— B. Carroll Reece

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I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

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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 that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion. ↗

— Samuel Alito

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