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I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.
Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
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.
You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.
No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.
One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
The first to grasp how sensitive Israeli public opinion was on the issue of hostages and M.I.A.'s - and therefore what a powerful weapon abduction could be - was Ahmed Jibril, the leader of a faction of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether it's being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry.
