Answers Quote by Christopher Hitchens

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

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

Opinion polls sponsored by newspapers were traditionally meant to bring to the fore the mood of the people objectively.

— N. Bhaskara Rao

The human mind can hardly remain entirely free from bias, and decisive opinions are often formed before a thorough examination of a subject from…

— H. P. Blavatsky

“One of the problems of a society as tightly controlled as ours is that we get so little information about what those of our…

— Gore Vidal

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

— J. B. Priestley

The variety of opinions leads to questions. Questions lead to truth.

— Thomas Jefferson

The idea that everyone's opinion is valuable is sometimes up for question.

— Tim Heidecker

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

— Cenk Uygur

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

— Andrew Kohut

We have too many politicians who are poll-driven to excess. Polls are important. You've got to know what the public is thinking, but you…

— Rudy Giuliani

Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring…

— Alan Dundes

There's a lot of work to be done in the polling world, and a need to continue to rethink how we do what we…

— Kristen Soltis Anderson