Quotes about Public Mood

Annie Lennox

I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.

P. J. O'Rourke

In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.

Douglas Bailey

Campaigns are not for educating. They're for linking up with the public mood.

George Clooney

You've got to remember that films don't lead the way. People think that films are trying to lead society. Mostly, they're reflecting the moods and thoughts that are going on in the country or around the world.

Henry L. Stimson

…the bad judgment which is going on in the campaign is beyond all words, but the people of the country are in a humor where they don’t want to hear any reason…They want a change, and I think they are going to get it…

Hoover had to cope with the Great Depression. His administration was hapless in improving the economy as he was in a philosophical bind in that he was opposed in principle to doing almost anything that would help the situation. He just did not believe that government should engage in the activities that were necessary. His 1932 campaign had him trying to explain his thinking as to why government should not do much. Stimson and many other Republicans disagreed as so many Americans were suffering so badly. However, most publicly supported their party’s President even as many had private misgivings. Hoover was thrown out of office in an FDR landslide win. His policies government activist policies and programs improved the economy but it tool almost a decade to recover.

Edward Abbey

In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.

Martha Gellhorn

In the end, in England, when you want to find out how people are feeling, you always go to the pubs.

N. Bhaskara Rao

Opinion polls sponsored by newspapers were traditionally meant to bring to the fore the mood of the people objectively.

Jean Chretien

A successful politician must not only be able to read the mood of the public, he must have the skill to get the public on his side. The public is moved by mood more than logic, by instinct more than reason, and that is something that every politician must make use of or guard against.

Mark Russell

People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television.

Frank Bruni

I wanted us to be careful about, going to the corner diner, interviewing three people and saying, "here's the mood of the public."

Nicholas Soames

It is often quite impossible to gauge the mood of the Chamber in advance, particularly on big occasions. One moment, it is relaxed and good-humoured; at the next, it can be angry and querulous, and the House in this mood can be a formidable arena.

Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy

The euphoria around Modiji is also no longer there.

Public Mood Quotes