Public Opinion Quotes - Page 18

• 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

  Real, Intelligent, Track

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• Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals that we dare not present to them directly [...] All the earlier proposals will be in the new text, but will be hidden and disguised in some way.

  Valery Giscard d'Estaing

  Knowing, Way, Proposal

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• When I look at public opinion, I'm not far out of the mainstream. I'm in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I've ever said.

  Noam Chomsky

  Looks, Mainstream, Said

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• No state empowered to do what is supposedly necessary will restrain itself to those things. It will expand as much as public opinion will tolerate.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  States, Empowered, Tolerate

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• I read these polls because civil-liberties organizations tell me I need to be aware of public opinion.

  Edward Snowden

  Organization, Liberty, Needs

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Public opinion takes no offense at the endeavors of farmers, workers, clerks, teachers, doctors, ministers, and people from many other callings to earn as much as they can. But it censures the capitalists and entrepreneurs for their greed.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Teacher, Doctors, People

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

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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

  Feelings, Use, Information

  "Former Mexican President Vicente Fox Debates Immigration Issue With Bill". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. October 10, 2007.

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• I believe the role that people like myself have played in the transformation of public opinion has been by persistently presenting a different point of view, a point of view which stresses the importance of private markets, of individual freedom, and the distorting effect of governmental policy.

  Milton Friedman

  Stress, Believe, Views

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you do your work, if you are committed at the grassroots level, if you have a vision for the long run (not only short-sighted interest), you can change public opinion.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Running, Long, Vision

  "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". The Islamic Monthly Interview, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.

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• I, however, fear that at some future point there will possibly be concerted backlash against us because of our successes in business and other ventures. I fear this because I see a concerted effort by writers across the countries to sway public opinions by past AIM organizers

  Leonard Peltier

  Country, Past, Effort

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• As the master politician navigates the ship of state, he both creates and responds to public opinion. Adept at tacking with the wind, he also succeeds, at times, in generating breezes of his own.

  Stewart Udall

  Wind, Ships, Succeed

  Stewart L. Udall (1988). “The quiet crisis and the next generation”, Gibbs Smith

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• As to whether I will ever get out, it will obviously take some large measures of public opinion because the judiciary system of America is totally interlaced with bureaucratic influences that perpetuate FBI control over judges, prosecutors and court proceedings.

  Leonard Peltier

  America, Judging, Influence

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• I know that the fact that I am candidate to my own succession in 2017 can be perceived to be a bad thing by some part of the public opinion outside Rwanda and I don't mind because I know that I am doing it for a good cause. It really doesn't matter to me that my name is associated to those critics as long as I know that I am doing the will of the people.

  Paul Kagame

  Names, Long, People

  "Paul Kagame Interview in Jeune Afrique: 'Rwanda is a democracy not a monarchy'". umuvugizi.wordpress.com. April 9, 2016.

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