Public Sentiment Quotes

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.... The public have neither shame nor gratitude.

Considering the relation of master and slave, controlled by humane laws and influenced by Christianity and an enlightened public sentiment, as the best that can exist between the white and black races while intermingled as at present in this country, I would deprecate any sudden disturbance of that relation unless it be necessary to avert a greater calamity to both….we must decide whether slavery- shall be extinguished by our enemies and the slaves be used against us, or use them ourselves at the risk of the effects which may be produced upon our social institutions….

I love presidential campaigns. It is a time when people are feeling what is going on in the heart of our country.

We just watched this budget debacle right? Seventy-three percent of Americans want to tax the rich. Why can't the politicians respond to that? Because they are the rich. And they are beholden to the rich. It's a captured system.

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

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

Something is stirring in the hearts and minds of the people.

If Donald Trump's candidacy has proven anything, it's that the media has no idea what Americans care about.

The general assumption, which I think is a valid one, is that a lot of the major media were on their heels a little bit and prone to share the grief of the nation and to give Bush all the support it could.

I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.

Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing

I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed

Naturally the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along. . .

Donald Trump understands the frustrations and the hopes of the American people.

Theodore Roosevelt is the ablest living interpreter of what I would call the superficial public sentiment of a given time, and he is spontaneous in his reactions to it.

The energy I was sensing in audiences was political energy, as much as anything else.

I think the whole dynamic is different. Whereas in [Barack] Obama's case, even though there was no incumbent, he was able to run against eight years of Bush-Cheney and a Republican Congress, and everyone was tired of everything. He was able to benefit from that.

Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine.

Public opinion in this country is everything.

Well, you know, like, I don't really give a f**k what the general public think.

I'll tell you what I do have: I have a good feel for ordinary people, for politics, and those are my strengths. I understand, I hope instinctively, where many of our Armed Forces come from.

The court of public opinion is open 24 hours a day.

The people of Kentucky have had enough. They have had enough of bailouts for Wall Street banks.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. Consequently he who moulds public sentiment, goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.

I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.