"Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it]."

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Alan Blinder

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“Faith is taking God seriously.”

Source : Derek Prince (2007). “Bought with Blood: The Divine Exchange at the Cross”, p.201, Chosen Books
“I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.”
“A successful career has been full of blunders.”
“If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, youll see something of the difference between Homers poetry and anyone elses. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the Iliad, real animals, real people, real light attending everything.”
“You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.”
“You cannot walk away. The truth is that there is no magic way that you can say to your partners, "You are going to continue paying us the money and we will not keep our part of the deal." This is not possible around the world. It is good to hear it.”

Source : Source: www.sbs.com.au
“There is this fine line between presenting to You all of my weakness and thinking that it can't be done. In Your strength, I find my own.”
“I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel.”

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