Jed Mercurio Quotes

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 anything I've ever said.

What the lawmaker has to ascertain is not the true belief but the common belief.

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man.

Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

The opinion of the people is not to be taken from the streets.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.

Nudity doesn't scare me at all; the only thing about it is the perception by the audience.

If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along.

I'm really not worried about what fans think.

The public is never wrong.

The majority in this country have not seen anything wrong with Zuma. I go with the overwhelming feeling of this country. If the majority say, 'Zuma, do this,' I will do it.

I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

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.

No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

The public is always right.

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.

I would say that I'm pretty mainstream.

I don't know why, but audiences are often sympathetic to thieves. Sometimes they are more sympathetic to thieves then they are to earnest people. What does that say about society?

What the people believe is true.

We should go just as fast and as far as public sentiment would justify.