Polls Quotes - Page 2

• There is only one opinion poll that I am interested in and that is the one that will take place on election day.

  Michael Howard

  Election, Opinion, Election Day

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• Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.

  C. Everett Koop

  Teacher, Taken, Kids

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• If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after a day when Mr. Obama leads 19 out of 20 swing-state polls, then you should abandon the pretense that your goal is to inform rather than entertain the public.

  Nate Silver

  Winning, College, Swings

  "Nate Silver Took A Huge Shot Against Mainstream Political Pundits In His Latest Election Forecast" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. November 3, 2012.

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• Democracy suits Europeans today partly because it is associated with the triumph of capitalism and partly because it involves less commitment or intrusion into their lives than any of the alternatives. Europeans accept democracy because they no longer believe in politics. It is for this reason that we find both high levels of support for democracy in cross-national opinion polls and high rates of political apathy.

  Mark Mazower

  Believe, Commitment, Support

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• Despite the administration's long public information campaign, for many months polls have consistently indicated only 37 percent of those eligible for Medicare say they only partially understand the program.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Long, Campaigns, Information

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• In Sussex Drive, Linda Svendsen takes us deep behind the lines of Ottawa’s politics, polls and pomp, and into the lives of Canada’s two most powerful women. By turns shocking, funny, sizzling and illuminating, this story is brilliantly written with an unnerving authenticity that makes it seem all too real. You’re going to want to read this.

  Terry Fallis

  Powerful, Real, Two

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• Every two years, one of the most hotly contested elections in Texas is the poll taken among members of the capitol press corps to determine who are actually the ten stupidest members of the Legislature. Two years ago, there were thirty-seven official nominees and several write-ins.

  Molly Ivins

  Taken, Writing, Years

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.9, Vintage

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• People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is a form of living death. Its apotheosis is the daily poll in USA Today, which informs us what percentage of a small number of unscientifically selected people called a toll number to vote on questions that cannot possibly be responded to with a yes or no.

  Roger Ebert

  Learning Something New, Small Numbers, Media

  Roger Ebert, David Bordwell (2017). “Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert: Second Edition”, p.432, University of Chicago Press

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• True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul.

  Emma Goldman

  Freedom, Soul, Court

  "Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909". Book by Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, 2003.

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• A new poll showed that 66% of Americans think President Bush is doing a poor job handling the war in Iraq and the remaining 34% think that Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs to church.

  Tina Fey

  Jobs, War, Thinking

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• I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold.

  Greg LeMond

  Thinking, Years, Risk

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• Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.

  Bob Ehrlich

  Leader, Action, Words And Actions

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• In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers.

  Polly Toynbee

  Years, Support, Catholic

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• And I'm very proud of the 50,000 poll workers and election officials who delivered a free and fair election.

  Ken Blackwell

  Proud, Election, Workers

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• While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is, in all of the polls I've seen, the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them.

  Paul Bremer

  Matter, Facts, Majority

  "Face The Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. July 21, 2003.

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• When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.

  Simon Callow

  Doctors, Years, Film

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• Polls suggest that more and more, opposition to Obamacare is based on voters' personal experience, and not just on what they have heard or read about the law.

  Byron York

  Law, Obamacare, Voters

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• Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data.

  Linda Chavez

  Data, President, Literature

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• Polls are biased left; GOP wins on the issues.

  Newt Gingrich

  Winning, Issues, Principles

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• Today, Americans of all political stripes are coming to a similar, sad realization about our president. A recent Fox News poll asked Americans 'How often does Barack Obama lie to the country on important matters?' Thirty-seven percent said 'most of the time,' 24 percent said 'some of the time,' and 20 percent said 'only now and then.' Just 15% said 'never.'

  Marc Thiessen

  Country, Lying, Political

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• The Democratic Party's problem is that voters don't believe the president's claims that the economy is thriving. Even people with jobs feel apprehensive. Paychecks are flat, growth anemic, and people are worried about their children's prospects. Mr. Obama had a 38% approval on handling the economy in the Sept. 9 Fox News poll. In the Sept. 7 NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, 67% believe America is on the wrong track.

  Karl Rove

  Jobs, Children, Wall

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• If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They would elect every clean candidate in the United States, and defeat every soiled one. Their prodigious power would be quickly realized and recognized, and afterward there would be no unclean candidates upon any ticket, and graft would cease.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Voting, Tickets

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910”

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• So Republican candidates bash Obamacare and move up in the polls. Given that public opinion remains firmly against the health care law - as it has been for years - that's not a shock. Democratic beliefs to the contrary are probably wishful thinking.

  Byron York

  Moving, Thinking, Years

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• Of course, with the last ads shipped and the last polls conducted, there'€™s not much to do but try to read the tea leaves. And from what Democrats are seeing, it doesn't look good. At all.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Tea Leaves, Trying, Looks

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• Democrats lead in all the polls by at least ten points, except one.. Fox News. That is with a margin of error of plus or minus the facts.

  Stephen Colbert

  Funny, Business, Errors

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