Public Pressure Quotes

The masses are our masters; and for every one who looks facts in the face his existence has become dependent on them, so that the thought of them must control his doings, his cares, and his duties.

If I am nominated [for the presidency], I will not run. If I am elected, I will not serve. But if you beg me, I just might reconsider.

Political leaders will never take risks unless the people push them to take risks.

Judge Kavanaugh never wavered from his vow not to buckle under political or public pressure, which is a characteristic we need in a Supreme Court justice.

I'm always having to get rid of reporters.

Change doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington

Of course, I think that people are just waiting for that time when I make a mistake and they're gonna jump on it.... There's gonna be haters.

Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.

I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.

Fame really drove me into my house. I was very paranoid. I didn't like going out. I had no idea how to be comfortable with the press. I was very young. It was really hard for me.

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

When you're in the public eye, we all feel like we're constantly observed, so we don't let things out. Anger, sadness, happiness - when does that come out? Maybe when you're in traffic, because you're in the safety of your little metallic bubble.

Some things are not best done in public even though the public is asking for a confrontation.

When you grow up on camera and in the public eye, you feel you have to put forth this image. I just took that to the extreme and there was a lot of pressure on me.

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

If the press knows about a problem, big or small, that problem is far more likely to receive the personal attention of senior policy makers, then if it remains a well-kept secret.

Congress and elected bodies always tend to react. As public bodies we are behind the people.

Fortunately or not, expectations are always high for all my films.

I've learned to suck in my stomach when photographers are around. I used to read gossip magazines all the time, but I stopped when I started being written about in them and read incredible lies about myself.

In a democracy, when you get 20 million people in the street, you resign.

Once you've been in the public eye, you are always going to be criticised.

Being married to two extremely high profile, you know, actresses, and being sort of chased by, you know, paparazzi and people, it's a whole different dynamic happens to a relationship when that happens. All of a sudden, things get a little crazy, a little crazy.

You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.

Everything Neymar does turns into news. If he gets emotional, they criticise. If he colours his hair, they criticise.

Well, I think that those of us in public life that are trying to do a good job, and that are faced with this popular new game that the media has of being critical of everything that anybody in public office does probably are thin-skinned.