members of a group, company, community or nation who are looked to by others for evaluation and interpretation of events. Opinion leaders are the people in a group who are listened to, trusted, depended upon and whose opinions are accepted by the rest of the group. It is, after all, the people and their own opinion leaders who sweat and fight and bleed for their countryNa government cannot bleed, it cannot even smile: it is just an idea men have. —Narconon, Way to Happiness Course Approved Glossary