Business leaders shape public opinion.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

When the initial effort of political and business leaders to influence public opinion on an issue is to threaten rather than to engage and persuade, they further arouse public opposition rather than win support.

In America, public opinion is the leader.

The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.

As if there wasn't a thousand things that were never heard.