Quotes About Opinion

I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.

Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic and emotional.

I hate government. I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican.

The law is an opinion with a gun.

In the Islamic government all people have complete freedom to have any kind of opinion.

Most of Albania considers this Government to be legitimate.

I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.

A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.

A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

Whether Canada ends up as o­ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion...

People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government.

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

The safest way to ensure diversity of opinion is diverse ownership. But this ideal has been sacrificed by our government.

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.

I can't see any difference in government between Bush and Obama apart from the color of their skin.

I don't know what people have against government; they haven't done anything.

A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!

Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.