Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won’t get played Huh?

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say… It’s like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They’re all opinions.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

He who molds the public sentiment… makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won’t allow it.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

I’m lucky that, despite all the bad press I’ve had over the years, the public still seems to like me.

When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

People are skeptical of many televangelists, and I’m sensitive to that.

Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States – old as well as new – North as well as South.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

I’m afraid the SS’s relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

I think, in many people’s minds, the Confederate battle flag is not only a memorial to our ancestors, which is perfectly OK, but also a symbol of white superiority and an inclination for people to believe that even slavery would’ve been OK.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

Most Americans think there’s already universal background checks. They don’t understand why there wouldn’t be a background check to purchase a weapon.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.

We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

I think the American people, with some justification, think that most politicians live in la-la land.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.

The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.

Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

I don’t believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

The public is strongly in favor of the Kyoto Protocols, so strongly in favor that a majority of Bush voters thought that he was in favor of it. They are simply unaware.

Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

All movements go too far.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

When President George W. Bush attempted to reform Social Security, that proposal was more unpopular with Americans than the Iraq war. People love their entitlements.

We had violence directed at us by the growers themselves, trying to run us down by cars, pointing rifles at us, spraying the people when they were on the picket line with sulfur.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I’ll take my chances with the public.

There’s backlash about everything I do.

When Brexiters told the public that people were exaggerating, that there would be a financial meltdown, I think it’s been proven that they were not exaggerating.

WWE asked me to be in the Hall of Fame, and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in the wrestling Hall of Fame. This guy can’t even get into his own Hall of Fame.