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WRITERS > journalist, editor, author > Walter Lippmann
The effort to...
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The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.
Source: The Bogey of Public Opinion, in Vanity Fair (New York, Dec. 1931).
-- Walter Lippmann, (Sep 23 1889-1974), US journalist, editor, author; He won Pulitzers 1958, 1962, for his syndicated column, Today and Tomorrow.