Polls Quotes · Page 20

There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll…

— Bob Woodward

According to a British poll, you've only got a one in five chance of achieving your childhood career ambition. Which probably explains…

— Jay Leno

Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.

— Benny Goodman

Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves…

— Jack Germond

German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces a critical test in her political career. Merkel has been under increasing pressure over the European migrant…

— Rachel Martin

I saw a poll that said the right track/wrong track in Iraq was better than here in America. It's pretty darn strong.…

— George W. Bush

In a Time/CNN poll of 1,000 Americans conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners, two-thirds said it was more important to protect the…

— Philip Elmer-DeWitt

We have to remember in that Bloomberg poll, strong Republican support for [Donald ]Trump's proposal, but the country at large - strong…

— Steve Inskeep

I treat opinion polls with a pinch of sugar.

— Ed Miliband

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.

— Mary Frances Berry

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

— Noam Chomsky

I don't look at polls.

— Rick Scott

We look at all the polls, not just the Gallup Poll. So, it's kind of like if you have, you know, four…

— Nate Silver

For almost 50 years polls have shown that a large majority of the public believe that the budget should be balanced, and…

— Herbert Stein

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

— Chris Christie

On March 8 a poll showed Hart 9 points ahead of Reagan. So perhaps 60 million Americans, 55 million of whom had…

— George Will

The US is also unusual in the enormous scale of religious fundamentalism. The impact on understanding of the world is extraordinary. In…

— Noam Chomsky

I get ratings. If I didn't get ratings, they [media] wouldn't do it. They don't care about poll numbers, they only care…

— Donald Trump

In fairness to the [Donald] Trump people, if you look at the most recent numbers, they're actually doing well in Ohio, winning,…

— John Brabender

If you've got somebody in harm's way, you want the president being -- making advice, not -- be given advice by the…

— George W. Bush

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

— Emma Goldman

In a poll taken in 1998, only 7 percent of the members of the US National Academy of Sciences, the elite of…

— Victor J. Stenger

People all over the world now are following our election. And according to a new international poll that just came out, I…

— Conan O'Brien

There was a poll released yesterday that said most people would rather give up sex than give up their cell phones.

— Richard Rodriguez

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

— John Gutfreund