Polling Quotes

In the polling booth narrow self interest wins out over lofty principles.

— James Cook

I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.

— Nate Silver

We can't disrupt polling places anymore, ... It doesn't serve any purpose. It just makes people mad.

— John McCain

Maintain your rage and enthusiasm for the campaign for the election now to be held and until polling day.

— Gough Whitlam

Congress as a whole is less popular than it's been since polling was invented.

— Jim Cooper

Polling is an art as well as a science, and the art of crafting good questions is still vital.

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

[Donald] Trump is not going to win... He's losing to Hillary [Clinton] in the latest polling.

— Erick Erickson

Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.

— Ken Livingstone

Polling can only tell us so much. It captures a moment in time that can be sustainable or utterly fleeting. It can…

— Jessica Tarlov

I figured out Karl Rove's political strategy -- make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go to the polls.

— John F. Kerry

Someone cold, politically calculating with no moral compass who can't be trusted. That's what polling and discussions with voters indicate [about Hillary…

— Tamara Keith

I believe that the polling data that shows people give Obama 53% approval, I happen to think the polls are right. I…

— Rush Limbaugh

I will say we now, in the polling in Wisconsin, much different than many other races, the public didn't perceive that we…

— Scott McCallum

I grew up in a family where my parents were always volunteering at polling places and always making calls and stuff. I…

— Ayo Edebiri

People wanted to vote for us but the mechanics of getting the voters to the polling stations we didnt have. We did…

— Imran Khan

Our polling methodology has gotten outdated, and, in fact, it's not really telling us what it needs to be telling us.

— Reid Hoffman

Interestingly, a lot of the polling that I see is not along racial lines, but along generational lines. We are doing better…

— Bernie Sanders

I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind - an inability to chart…

— Lee Kuan Yew

When considering a candidate for office, almost right up until they enter the polling booth and sometimes even in the booth itself,…

— Quin Hillyer

While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of…

— Paul Bremer

Public opinion should not be confused with popular sentiment. Popular sentiment is what people say to one another around their dinner tables.…

— Richard Brookhiser

Given [Donald] Trump's polling deficit, his reluctance for ads until very recently in his near total lack of any ground game to…

— Chris Hayes

None of this means, however, that a business or stock is an intelligent purchase simply because it is unpopular; a contrarian approach…

— Warren Buffett

The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel…

— Lewis Thomas

Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as…

— James Thurber

Polls are now even more meaningless than ever... there was the case of Ronnie O'Brien, the young footballer who incredibly found himself…

— Ian O'Doherty

I think polling is the best way of gauging public opinion - doing something that's independent, that's quantitative, that doesn't give just…

— Andrew Kohut

Herman Cain is probably well-liked by some of the Republicans because it hides the racist elements of the Republican Party, conservative movement…

— Janeane Garofalo

People vote against their own interests that all the time. But when you do the polling in the U.S., it has gone…

— Michael Bloomberg

I think polling is important because it gives a voice to the people. It gives a quantitative, independent assessment of what the…

— Andrew Kohut

“In politics, the connection between what you pay for and what you actually get is problematic at best... This is another way…

— Lawrence W. Reed

The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The point is that television does not reveal who the best man is. In fact, television makes impossible the determination of who…

— Neil Postman

“Polls could be self-fulfilling prophecies, shaping reality as much as they described it.”

— Rick Perlstein

All polling places should be safe, without discrimination against any religion.

— Lois Frankel

I have one idea of how to get more Democratic women to polling stations: Stand up for them.

— Laura Moser

I don't believe in traditional, head-to-head polling.

— Brad Parscale

I don't need polling to tell me what are the issues that matter to people.

— Katie Hill

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places…

— Joe Biden

I'm one of those goobers who comes out of the polling place actually wearing the 'I VOTED' sticker on my jacket.

— Mary Roach