Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a President or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people.
Everybody's got their own opinion and their own say. In today's age, everybody wants to be right, so there's people that hate you; there's people that love you.
For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why.
I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.
A Constitution is not intended to embody a particular economic theory... It is made for people of fundamentally differing views …
At the end of the day, I can't curl up with people's opinions.
It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a Western or Northern imposition. It was often their leaders who did so.
People will always have their opinions; I've come to learn whose matter.
People have different ways of interpreting history.
I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.
It's very difficult to change the perception people have of you.
Every person's opinion, in a way, does matter.
People have got their opinions, and you can't please everyone.
I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons.
You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.
I am fascinated in religion and theology and what people believe.
People's minds can change very quickly.
