Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.
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Squabbling in public will eventually ruin football; there's no doubt it's hurting us already. Polls taken by Louis Harris - polls as valid as any political polls - indicate that very clearly.
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Government, is the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
quote by William Lyon Mackenzie King
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Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
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Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
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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.
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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.
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Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words ""gay marriage"" are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.
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Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
quote by William Lyon Mackenzie King
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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.
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According to recent opinion polls, a large majority of Iraqis believe that the U.S. military has no intention to leave Iraq, and that it would stay even is asked by the Iraqi government to leave.
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Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.
quote by John McCarthy
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And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.
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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.
quote by Charles Evans Hughes
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Whatever is right can be achieved through the irresistible power of awakened and informed public opinion. Our object, therefore, is not to enquire whether a thing can be done, but whether it ought to be done, to so exert the forces of publicity that public opinion will compel it be done.
quote by William Randolph Hearst
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Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.
quote by James F. Cooper
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We journalists tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.
quote by Arthur Hays Sulzberger
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The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.
quote by George Bancroft
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The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.
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I believe in an America with a government of men devoted solely to the public interests — men of ability and dedication, free from conflict or corruption or other commitment — a responsible government that is efficient and economical, with a balanced budget over the years of the cycle, reducing its debt in prosperous times — a government willing to entrust the people with the facts that they have — not a businessman's government, with business in the saddle … not a labor government, not a farmer's government, not a government of one section of the country or another, but a government of, for and by the people.
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