Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: "I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later. . ."

Wal-Mart has already lost the battle in the court of public opinion; now Wal-Mart has lost the battle in a court of law as well.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

The findings suggest that American public opinion is starkly divided when it comes to the role of religion in the public square, and that our nation's proud tradition of church-state separation is threatened as never before.