If public figures came out of the closet, then the LGBT kids who saw them on TV would feel safe before they even knew why they felt dangerous. Maybe... →
Margaret Cho
There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
Noam Chomsky
Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.
The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern... →
The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a... →
There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office - anything that benefits the population has to... →
When I look at public opinion, I'm not far out of the mainstream. I'm in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond... →
To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.
Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.
In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.