Polls Quotes · Page 4

I generally believe in polls. Scientific polls are accurate.

— Bob Ehrlich

Don't worry about polls, but if you do, don't admit it.

— Rosalynn Carter

You see, Mr. President - real leaders don't follow polls. Real leaders change polls.

— Chris Christie

I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

Polls are like perfume-nice to smell, dangerous to swallow.

— Shimon Peres

The media, the polls and our legislatures fortunately have short attention spans.

— John Gutfreund

I've been in politics long enough to know that polls just go poof at times.

— George W. Bush

Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.

— Garry Trudeau

If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.

— Margaret Thatcher

The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.

— Will Rogers

Those poll ratings go south, I think you have a Republican Party ready to begin different kinds of hearings than [Jason] Chaffetz…

— Katrina vanden Heuvel

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

— Robert Orben

You cannot be driven by the polls. The polls change all the time; they're easily manipulated by whoever wants to ask those…

— Dick Cheney

According to a CNN poll, Trump nearly doubled his support from March. Actually, he just combed his March numbers over his current…

— Conan O'Brien

This year [2016], however, polls show [Hillary] Clinton winning white college-educated voters by double digits.

— Mara Liasson

I don't understand why President [Enrique] Pena has offered this opportunity. I think it's nothing more than a political stunt. Trump is…

— Vicente Fox

If you do have to look at polls, you should do it no more than once every few days, to get a…

— David Brooks

Kim Kardashian tweeted that she is supporting President Obama in the midterm elections. I think it worked because all of the polls…

— Conan O'Brien

Atheism is an effect of that knowledge [a poll showed atheists knew more about religion than anyone else], not a lack of…

— David Silverman

Judging by opinion polls, Israel has bigger problems than me. It is among the most hated countries on the planet. It should…

— Norman Finkelstein

Bloomberg says in this poll, leaders from across the political spectrum have condemned this policy, saying banning members of an entire religion…

— Steve Inskeep

I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to…

— Jim Bolger

Let me tell you the polls that count, and those are the polls a couple of weeks before the election. That's when…

— Rush Limbaugh

One should be weary of drawing too many inferences from a single poll. You can find wildly disparate results with two different…

— Glenn Greenwald

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and…

— Anonymous

I think people cast their votes for a number of reasons. I think if you look at your polls, you'll probably find…

— Bernie Sanders

Why did the people think [Vietnam war] was fundamentally wrong and immoral? The guys who ran the polls, John E. Rielly, a…

— Noam Chomsky

If there is to be responsible party government, the party label must be something more than a mere device for securing office.…

— Calvin Coolidge

The question taxpayers keep asking is 'why should we pay for services for those who have broken the law to get here?'…

— Michael D. Antonovich

You’re talking about Rwanda or Bangladesh, or Cambodia, or the Philippines. They’ve got democracy, according to Freedom House. But have you got…

— Lee Kuan Yew

I'm a counterpuncher. I don't have a choice. If you look what they say about me, it's terrible. I mean, they say…

— Donald Trump

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

— Bob Ehrlich

A brand new Telemundo poll says that three out of four Hispanics that vote nationwide have a negative opinion of Doanald Trump.…

— Ted Cruz

A 2008 poll of 35,000 Americans revealed that 57% of Evangelical church attenders believe that many religions can lead to eternal life.

— Robert Jeffress

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

— John Updike

The only thing I have ever been asked [by a pollster] was the age at which I first indulged in oral sex…

— Paul Rudnick

A 1940 Gallup poll showed 83 percent of the public was against intervention. A good pretext was needed to gain support from…

— Jim Marrs

In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.

— Elizabeth Kolbert

If the polls are right, our Judeo-Christian heritage is no longer the foundation of our values. We have become a post-Christian society.

— Charles Colson

There is no actual need to tighten voter ID rules: there have been extraordinarily few instances of people committing fraud at the…

— Adam Cohen