Opinion Quote by Rick Perlstein Download Open image ““Polls could be self-fulfilling prophecies, shaping reality as much as they described it.”” — Rick Perlstein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Opinion Polling
“I want to believe in prophecies more than policies. I want to listen to poets rather than pollsters.” — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share Image
Polls are a snapshot in time and America - the American people - are whole people. They lead whole lives and they need us… — Laphonza Butler Copy Share Image
Pre-poll and exit polls have now become a commercial proposition. No longer are they viewed as means for a debate or means for enriching… — N. Bhaskara Rao Copy Share Image
“As we explore these possibilities we must remember that they are just that — not predictions or prophecies.” — Gerard O'Neill Copy Share Image
And I think the rolling polls put more pressure on them to sustain their beliefs and to improve their delivery of the policy and… — Jim Bolger Copy Share Image
Stay away from national polls. They are always an illusion. They will always trick you into stupid political behavior. — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
Of course I base all my election promises and policies on opinion polls — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Voter NOUN a paranoid schizophrenic who believes the voices promising them an alternate future are real.” — David Gustafson Copy Share Image
The bottom line is: Polls can be provocative, informative, fun or maddening. But as we move into 2020, it's important to be mindful that… — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
Polls can change; people's opinions can change. Voting intentions can change, and I think it would be a silly leader, a silly political party,… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
I love trade magazines - any trade's magazine: by entering into what is taken for granted in a world not your own, you better… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
When the 2008 victory of Barack Obama and the defeat of grumpy old John McCain began looking, um, inevitable, I started fielding inquiries about… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Watergate got us to think of leaders as mere mortals. America began to think of itself in a very different way - I would… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Part of the fantasy certain pro-reform Republicans like to broadcast about Hispanics, family-oriented, churchgoing traditionalists, is that they are somehow natural conservatives, just waiting… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
The history of American higher education over the twentieth century is an extraordinary one, the story of the creation of a powerhouse set of… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
The only times during my religious instruction I remember hearing God's name invoked with any sincere conviction at all was in the oft-repeated and… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
As a general rule of thumb, Democrats do better in national elections when the year's defining issue is economic fairness, and Republicans do better… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory. — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state - that devouring leviathan - will soon swallow… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
I think that all politicians who aspire to the presidency are a little nuts, but for different reasons. What kind of person aspires to… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Chicago's privatization mania began during Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration, which ran from 1989 to 2011. Under his successor, Rahm Emanuel, the trend has… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
If you want to edit your photos and make yourself look different, go for it. That is up to you, but in my opinion,… — Peyton List Copy Share Image
In my opinion, sexiness comes down to three things: chemistry, sense of humor, and treatment of waitstaff at restaurants. — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
I remember that the bass was turned up slightly more on the mix from last week, and I thought that was good - or… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I shot for French and British Vogue. The British Vogue one featured clothes by Chloe and was shot at Highgate and the John Soane… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image