Famous quotes containing the words public, opinion and/or polls:
“There is a cannibalism thats loose in our society in which public figures such as the Clintons could try to come into this town and do something good for this country and then they get hammered away even though theyre trying to do the right thing.”
—David R. Gergen (b. 1942)
“In spite of all the learned have said,
I still my old opinion keep;
The posture, that we give the dead,
Points out the souls eternal sleep.
Not so the ancients of these lands
The Indian, when from life released,
Again is seated with his friends,
And shares again the joyous feast.”
—Philip Freneau (17521832)
“The right to vote, or equal civil rights, may be good demands, but true emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in courts. It begins in womans soul.”
—Emma Goldman (18691940)