Polls Quotes · Page 6

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

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

— Jim Marrs

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

— Margaret Thatcher

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

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

— Robert Orben

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

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

— Will Rogers

If the tea party is so racist, how come when they have straw polls the black guy keeps winning?

— Herman Cain

How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for…

— Bill Hicks

I want the ones that stood up for the Tea Party when the Tea Party was being pilloried by the mainstream media.…

— Andrew Breitbart

It so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you're not going to…

— Adam McKay

I'm sick of the pussies on the right, if I can use that word, they're pathetic. The poll-tested, Republican strategist driven candidate…

— Andrew Breitbart

When Caroline Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 as her father's rightful heir, she laid upon him the mantle of Camelot and…

— Kitty Kelley

If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after a day…

— Nate Silver

According to a Pew poll, 49% of young Americans have a favorable view of socialism. What is socialism? it is a system…

— David Horowitz

A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing…

— Lane Evans

It seems like election 2016 has been a whole lot about a person who's very high in the polls, that doesn't have…

— Mike Huckabee

You know, there was a recent poll which said that young people in the generation of the students here felt it was…

— William J. Clinton

There are times when I wouldn't rule violence out. I personally don't like violence at all. But it wasn't until we had…

— Alice Nutter

“When Arthur Schlesinger Sr. pioneered the 'presidential greatness poll' in 1948, the top five were Lincoln, Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson,…

— Chuck Klosterman

Attaching significance to invariants is an effort to recognize what, because of its form or colour or meaning or otherwise, is important…

— Herbert Turnbull

This is God's standards [against same-sex marriage and abortions]. And just because public opinion may have changed or somebody takes a poll…

— Franklin Graham

I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.…

— Gerald R. Ford

In a Bloomberg poll, 88% of respondents said that Wall Street bonuses should either be banned outright or taxed at 50%. Just…

— Felix Salmon

Polls suggest that more and more, opposition to Obamacare is based on voters' personal experience, and not just on what they have…

— Byron York

You don't need people’s opinion on a fact. You might as well have a poll asking: ‘Which number is bigger, 15 or…

— John Oliver

Obama is huge in the polls these days. His popularity is soaring. Even conservatives are coming around. 30 percent of them now…

— Bill Maher

Senator Martinez is not driven by polls; he is driven by the needs of the state of Florida and its 17 million constituents.

— Mel Martinez

I know that a lot of people love to say that polls are wrong or don't matter, and from time to time…

— Cenk Uygur

We're going to get that little bug before that little bug gets my poll ratings down any further.

— Jerry Brown

I don't accept that. I really don't care - I'm going to be like one of these deniers - I don't care…

— John Kasich

We welcome the Election Commission's announcement of a five-phase poll in the state. We will abide by all the guidelines and directives…

— Mamata Banerjee

One poll showed that Americans have a higher opinion of witches, the IRS and hemorrhoids than Congress

— Tom Coburn

You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.

— Rand Paul

I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll…

— Nate Silver

Stay away from national polls. They are always an illusion. They will always trick you into stupid political behavior.

— Rick Wilson

I read these polls because civil-liberties organizations tell me I need to be aware of public opinion.

— Edward Snowden

Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously.

— Anonymous

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

— Ron Fournier

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

— Richard Rodriguez