Polls Quotes - Page 5

• [Y]ou cannot determine either the truth or the right or wrong of anything with a poll. You can only tabulate people's opinions.

  Charley Reese

  People, Opinion, Determine

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• The most absurd public opinion polls are those on taxes. Now, if there is one thing we know about taxes, it is that people do not want to pay them. If they wanted to pay them, there would be no need for taxes. People would gladly figure out how much of their money that the government deserves and send it in. And yet we routinely hear about opinion polls that reveal that the public likes the tax level as it is and might even like it higher. Next they will tell us that the public thinks the crime rate is too low, or that the American people would really like to be in more auto accidents.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Thinking, Government, People

  "Speaking of Liberty". Book by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, 2003.

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• We look at all the polls, not just the Gallup Poll. So, it's kind of like if you have, you know, four out of five doctors agree that reducing cholesterol reduces your risk of a heart attack, Gallup is like the fifth doctor.

  Nate Silver

  Heart, Doctors, Risk

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• If I believed in polls, I wouldn't get up in the morning.

  Hillary Clinton

  Morning, Get Up, Ifs

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• The only poll obviously that matters is the last one, the one that's counted after all the votes are cast.

  Mario Diaz-Balart

  Matter, Lasts, Vote

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• A 1977 poll of American astronomers, published in JSE, showed the following. Out of 2611 questionnaires 1356 were returned. In response to whether the UFO problem deserved further study the replies were: 23% certainly, 30% probably, 27% percent possibly, 17% probably not, 3% certainly not. Interestingly, there was a positive correlation between the amount of reading done on the subject and the opinion that further study was in order.

  Bernard Haisch

  Reading, Order, Done

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• Let me tell you the polls that count, and those are the polls a couple of weeks before the election. That's when the pollsters worry about holding onto their credibility. Those are the polls that everybody remembers.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Couple, Worry, Election

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• Palin seems to have forgotten that her poll ratings have plummeted since the summer of 2011.

  Ron Fournier

  Summer, Forgotten, Rating

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• I'm very happy with the way I look. I wake up some morning, catch myself in the bathroom mirror, and go, 'hey girl, you're alright'. But on the other hand, I find the website stuff, and the polls, something completely removed from my own personal life. You can't take anything like that too seriously, otherwise you'd end up in the loony bin.

  Cameron Diaz

  Girl, Morning, Mirrors

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• I can tell you if you look at the polls, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they do not think we should increase the debt limit.

  Jim DeMint

  Thinking, Looks, Debt

  "Fighting Words: DeMint Warns Republicans They May Be 'Gone' if They Support Debt Ceiling Increase" by Jonathan Karl, Sunlen Miller, abcnews.go.com. June 24, 2011.

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• No poll can equal the day-to-day visits of the men and women of the Democratic Party.

  Richard J. Daley

  Party, Men, Political

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• I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check.

  Kevin Costner

  Thinking, People, Leader

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• You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable.

  Chris Christie

  Numbers, Teeth, Alternatives

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• You cannot be driven by the polls. The polls change all the time; they're easily manipulated by whoever wants to ask those poll questions; they go up; they go down.

  Dick Cheney

  Want, Driven, Asks

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• I think the record speaks for itself. These are two individuals who have been for the war when the headlines were good and against it when their poll ratings were bad.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Thinking, Two

  Dick Cheney during Vice-Presidential Debate at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, www.cnn.com. October 7, 2004.

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• A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust.

  Robert Casey

  Children, Believe, Abortion

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• For 'Power of 10,' you can look at the methodology at CBS.com, it's a company called Rasmussen Reports. We poll thousands and thousands of people for each question, a real cross section of the United States.

  Drew Carey

  Real, People, United States

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• The only tactic liberals have is to try to intimidate people into thinking that the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party is not a racist movement, period! If it were, why would the straw polls keep showing that the black guy is winning? That's a rhetorical question. Let me state it: The black guy keeps winning.

  Herman Cain

  Party, Winning, Thinking

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• The polls are inaccurate in my opinion, based upon anecdotal evidence, based upon people that I know.

  Herman Cain

  People, Opinion, Evidence

  "Herman Cain's Interview On The Daily Show Last Night Was Just As Wonderful As You Would Expect" by Walter Hickey, www.businessinsider.com. August 30, 2012.

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• I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll.

  Jeb Bush

  Decision, Political, Term

  "'Hannity' Great American Forum: Jeb Bush". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. July 22, 2011.

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• With the greatest respect, we do not make the criminal law on the basis of opinion polls. A majority of 9:1 could be in favour of a ban in my constituency, but I would not regard that as conclusive, and I hope that we never would. If we start having opinion polls about all the unpleasant and distasteful habits and customs of some members of society, and suggesting that their findings should be made part of the criminal law, foxhunting would come way down the list, and quite a lot of strange enactments would have to go through the House.

  Kenneth Clarke

  Hunting, Law, House

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• Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.

  Al Sharpton

  Guy, Bills, Kind

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• Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.

  Marco Rubio

  Leadership, Years, Perspective

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• You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.

  Nancy Reagan

  Cells, People, Research

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• I'm going to be the nominee. It's very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high I'm going to be the nominee.

  Newt Gingrich

  Thinking, Odds, Looks

  "Gingrich's Unconventional White House Bid: A Retrospective". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. April 25, 2012.

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