I think it's easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn't make a good citizen.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.
I think the American electorate should work a little harder at getting informed. That includes hearing, truly listening, to what the other side is saying. Whether you're left or right.
Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world.
It's always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say.
People have a huge desire to be listened to, for politicians to take the time to understand their problems.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.
Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.
The First Amendment doesn't give anybody the right to be heard. People don't have to listen to you.