The Real Agenda Setters
- 1 March 1989
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in American Behavioral Scientist
- Vol. 32 (4) , 451-463
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764289032004010
Abstract
I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he'd taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if he'd taken a poll in Israel? Where would the Reformation have gone if Martin Luther had taken a poll? It isn't polls or public opinion of the moment that counts. It is right and wrong leadership—men with fortitude, honesty and a belief in the right—that makes epochs in the history of the world. Harry TrumanKeywords
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