Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sean McCormack

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

Will Rogers

I don't know jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.

Jim Pugh

This was not unexpected. Madison is a government town.

Richard Posner

MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women - is shockingly causal. Much of her evidence is anecdotal, and in a nation of 260 Million people, anecdotes are a weak form of evidence.

Richard Posner

It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity. The regulation here does not authorize any judgment about the content of any speeches. ... A park is a limited space, and to allow unregulated access to all comers could easily reduce rather than enlarge the park's utility as a forum for speech. Just imagine two rallies held at the same time in the same park area using public-address systems that drowned out each other's speakers.

Richard Perle

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

Richard Holbrooke

Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced to do so by political level authority.

Ruben Hinojosa

Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners.

Robert Peel

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

Johan Huizinga

From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.

Henrik Ibsen

Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing

Henry Ward Beecher

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Simon Anholt

The only remaining superpower is international public opinion.

H. L. Mencken

Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavored and colored, and put into cans.

Georg Brandes

What is public opinion? It is private indolence.

Jim Baker

He said he wouldn't sell out to the special interests, and it's my opinion that he has,

Umberto Eco

It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.

Jim Rogers

Acknowledge the complexity of the world and resist the impression that you easily understand it. People are too quick to accept conventional wisdom, because it sounds basically true and it tends to be reinforced by both their peers and opinion leaders, many of whome have never looked at whether the facts support the received wisdom. It's a basic fact of life that many things "everybody knows" turn out to be wrong.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Power is founded upon opinion.

Moby

It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know?

Mike Rounds

The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible.

Paul O'Grady

If I wanted your opinion, I'd slap it outta ya.

Oswald Chambers

Make converts to your own thoughts and opinions.

Patrick Kavanagh

It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion the damned are damned because they enjoy being damned.