“They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.” PeopleWorldMayRealLiteratureLosesOpinionOfficeIntelligentTrackServantPleasantReal WorldStatus QuoPublic OpinionPalacesDiplomatsCivil Servants Author:Anthony Holden
“Public opinion: May it always perform one of its appropriate offices, by teaching the public functionaries of the State and of the Federal Government, that neither shall assume the exercise of powers entrusted by the Constitution to the other.” MayStatesGovernmentOpinionTeachingExerciseOfficeConstitutionAssumingPresidentialAppropriateFederal GovernmentPublic Opinion Author:James K. Polk
“There can be no complete and permanent reform of the civil service until public opinion emancipates congressmen from all control and influence over government patronage. Legislation is required to establish the reform. No proper legislation is to be expected as long as members of Congress are engaged in procuring offices for their constituents.” LongGovernmentOpinionInfluenceMembersOfficeCongressExpectedReformPermanentEngagedLegislationPublic OpinionConstituentsCongressmanPatronageCivil Service Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent. This proposition is by no means novel; it has long been one of the commonplaces of popular opinion.” MeanLongSocialOpinionClassNovelMovementEvolutionOfficeLeisurePropositionsCommonplaceRetardPopular Opinion Book:The Theory of the Leisure Class Source: The Theory of the Leisure Class
“This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.” MenWantFeelsShouldActionOpinionHistoryRecordsExpressionOfficeChiefsDreadVirtuousRescueOblivionPosterityInfamousDepraved Author:Tacitus
“One of the things that you learn, having been in this [President's] office for four years, is the old adage of Abraham Lincoln's. That with public opinion there's nothing you can't do and without public opinion there's very little you can get done.” YearsLittlesDonePresidentOpinionFourOfficeFour YearsPublic OpinionAdagesAbraham Author:Barack Obama
“The proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right.” NaturalReligiousCommonOpinionAtheismCitizensOfficeAdvantageFellowsPrivilegePositive AtheismUnworthyRenounceIncapacityDepriving Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“While I do not think it was so intended I have always been of the opinion that this turned out to be much the best for me. I had no national experience. What I have ever been able to do has been the result of first learning how to do it. I am not gifted with intuition. I need not only hard work but experience to be ready to solve problems. The Presidents who have gone to Washington without first having held some national office have been at great disadvantage.” ThinkingNeedsFirstsHas BeensHardProblemAblePoliticsPresidentResultsOpinionGoneReadyHard WorkOfficeIntuitionSolveGiftedDisadvantages Author:Calvin Coolidge
“The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple, wherein man had nothing to inquire after, or to dispute, forasmuch as to obey is the proper office of a rational soul, acknowledging a heavenly superior and benefactor. From obedience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion.” MenFirstsDoeSoulSelfLawSinSimpleOpinionVirtuePureOfficeSpringSuperiorsNakedRationalObedienceHeavenlyCommandmentsSubmissionDisputesBenefactorsSelf Opinion Book:Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
“The disabusing a man strongly possessed with an opinion of his own worth is the very same ill office that was done to the fool at Athens, who fancied all the ships that came into the harbor were his own.” MenDoneOpinionFoolOfficeIllShipsPossessedHarborsAthens Author:Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
“Many actors will try something different once, but if it isn't a box office success they'll never do it again. In my opinion, there's no point in going on with this job if you do the same thing over and over again.” IfsTryingDifferentJobsActorsOpinionOfficeBoxesNo PointBox OfficeBox Office Success Author:Jack Nicholson
“To be honest I listen to the female opinion on my photos. If all the girls in the office choose a certain shot, even if I don't like it, it becomes a front runner because, really, what do I know about how others perceive me?” IfsKnowsCertainGirlOpinionHonestFrontsOfficeShotsFemaleBeing HonestPerceiveRunners Author:Michael Bolton
“...The British press... [claimed that Tony] Blair was simply Bush's poodle - a favorite phrase, bewilderingly popular, although it made no sense - and that he was ignoring the will of the British people. Considering the hacks had spent Blair's first six years in office condemning him for relying on focus groups and opinion polls for his policies - in other words, paying attention to nothing but the will of the people, or at least their whims - that seemed a little rich to me, but as I said, logical consistency has never figured highly in the British media's scale of values.” PeopleYearsFirstsLittlesMadeSaidValuesAttentionOpinionRichFocusGroupsMediaPolicyOfficeSixPressesBritishScalesPay AttentionJournalistPhrasesLogicalConsideringConsistencyPollsWhimHacksBlairCondemningPoodlesOpinion PollsFocus Groups Author:Larry King
“My principles, and those always received by the republicans, do not admit to removing any person from office merely for a difference of political opinion. Malversations in office, and the exerting of official influence to control the freedom of election are good causes for removal.” PersonsPoliticalCausesDifferencesOpinionPrinciplesInfluenceRepublicanOfficeElectionOfficialsRemovalGood CausesPolitical Opinions Author:Thomas Jefferson