Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Quotes

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

I think people across America want a leader who's actually going to listen to them.

We talk about the influence of the media on public opinion. But reality has some influence on public opinion too.

I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.

This thing that Colin Powell's son is expected to do is kind of scary when you think that television and radio and newspapers are what make people think what they think.

Anyone who's had a casual conversation with his neighbors or is cognizant of reality TV should already be petrified of democracy.

Hollywood likes to put out their own message out a lot of times, and that message isn't the best one for everyone.

I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.

People, even independently minded people, do to an extent draw their impressions from what they are told, especially if they are told it incessantly by newspapers.

I'm listening to America, not to the pundits.

The voice of the people must be heeded.

Acting upon everybody for 30 minutes in 24 hours, the press is asked to create a mystical force called Public Opinion that will take up the slack in public institutions. The press has often mistakenly pretended that it could do just that.

The public always wants to be told.

It is increasingly difficult to run a campaign of substance in an atmosphere which increasingly focuses on personality.

In Russia, as well as everywhere else, the true and lasting power is that of public opinion, and of those who know how to influence it.

That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

Everyone is an expert on T.V., just as he is on education; everyone has some education and a T.V. set.

I always turn to Wendy Williams when there's any type of ethical or moral crisis in our country.

You know the voice of the people is a very, very powerful tool.

To join in the political fray, I don't think it convinces anyone. It just becomes a talking point on CNN.

It's hard not to look at the road of the media and how the media is a big part of painting a picture for public opinion.

Political culture has become popular culture.

'Step Brothers' is probably the film the most people who approach me want to talk about.

What manner of thing this 'public opinion' is, should be best known to those who have its name forever in their mouths and erect the regard for it into a positive article of religion. Its self-styled organ in our times is the 'Press.'

I do think 'Gogglebox' is extraordinarily insightful, and I think if politicians want to understand how we are viewed at home, it's quite recommended viewing.