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The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything.

— Elihu Root

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.

— Jonathan Mayhew

Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

— Victor Davis Hanson

One always likes to think that other countries are not like one's own.

— Tom Stoppard

What is right is not always popular.

— Allison Tolman

Every country has its political face and political traditions.

— Sergei Lavrov

Well, I'm not that popular with the politicians, I have to say.

— Jose Padilha

I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.

— Benjamin F. Wade

When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

— Bill Gates

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.

— Saul Williams

✗Opposing Perspectives

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