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

  Tom Coburn

  Irs, Hemorrhoids, Opinion

  "Sen. Tom Coburn: A proud contrarian". "60 minutes" with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 21, 2014.

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• A nationwide Harris Poll showed that the public favoured the use of Laetrile by a 30% margin. ...In over 250 cases of cancer with which I have been associated, all of whom used (Laetrile, vitamin) B-17, not a single one had side effects as a result.

  Leon Chaitow

  Cancer, Dark, Age

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• According to a British poll, you've only got a one in five chance of achieving your childhood career ambition. Which probably explains why you don't run into that many cowboys, princesses, or space rangers.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Princess, Ambition

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• If there is to be responsible party government, the party label must be something more than a mere device for securing office. Unless those who are elected under the same party designation are willing to assume sufficient responsibility and exhibit sufficient loyalty and coherence, so that they can cooperate with each other in the support of the broad general principles, of the party platform, the election is merely a mockery, no decision is made at the polls, and there is no representation of the popular will.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Loyalty, Party, Responsibility

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

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• Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.

  Jack Germond

  Degrees, Voters, Belief

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• A government shutdown, it isn't the end of the world. It`s a bad thing. The government stops working for a few days. We cover it a lot. Polls turn against who ever made it stop working.

  Ezra Klein

  Government, World, Ends

  Source: www.today.com

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• I believe in the premillenial, pre-tribulational coming of Christ for all of his church, and to summarize that, your first poll, do you believe Jesus coming the second time will be in the future, I would vote yes with the 59 percent and with Billy Graham and most evangelicals.

  Jerry Falwell

  Jesus, Believe, Church

  "CNN still fixated on Apocalypse predictors, still ignoring alleged invitation to White House, Capitol Hill". "Paula Zahn Now", www.mediamatters.org. July 31, 2006.

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• Since 2005, a majority of Americans, according to the Gallup poll, have said it was wrong and a mistake to go into Iraq.

  David Brooks

  Mistake, Iraq, Majority

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you believe that there's a being superior to yourself and that will guide you, strengthen you that helps a lot but, you know, you just have to stay the course. You just got to stay in there. You cannot be waffling or taking a poll to see what people think. You have to do what you think is right.

  George H. W. Bush

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• A recent poll showed that nearly half the American public believes that the government should redistribute wealth. That so many people are so willing to blithely put such an enormous and dangerous arbitrary power in the hands of politicians-\-\risking their own freedom, in hopes of getting what someone else has-\-\is a painful sign of how far many citizens and voters fall short of what is needed to preserve a democratic republic

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, Fall, Government

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• And how about that Barack Obama? You know what they're saying? For the first time he's starting to slip in the polls. Barack Obama is starting to slip in the polls. Don't worry. He's got a plan. He's going to be to campaigning in Europe.

  David Letterman

  Europe, Worry, Firsts

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• To know John Kennedy, as I did, was to understand the true meaning of the word. He understood that courage is not something to be gauged in a poll or located in a focus group. No adviser can spin it. No historian can backdate it. For, in the age old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Focus, Age, Approval

  Remarks by President Gerald R. Ford on Receiving the 2001 Profile in Courage Award, www.jfklibrary.org. May 21, 2001.

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• I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it.

  Hosni Mubarak

  Responsibility, People, Choices

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

  Mamata Banerjee

  Phases, Welcome, Election

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• This is partly a function of approval ratings. People pay attention [to polls] and start saying, 'Lets take a more independent tack.' It is frankly self-interest, self-preservation.

  John Thune

  Independent, Approval Rating, Self

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• Opinion polls are not worth the paper they are written on, in my view, through the conference season. They don't settle down again until November.

  Norman Tebbit

  Views, Paper, November

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• In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Majority, Favour, Finance

  "Are we back to the 1930s again? Here's why we shouldn't panic" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2013.

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• Just two weeks ago, millions of Iraqis defied the threats of terrorists and went to the polls to determine their own future. I congratulate the Iraqi people for the courage they've shown in making these elections so successful.

  Bill Frist

  Successful, Two, People

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

  Benny Goodman

  Winning, Musician, Want

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• I don't think everyone should vote. If you have to be dragged into the polls, carried into the polls and smelling salts have to be used, you probably shouldn't be voting. However, we shouldn't be putting up barriers to voting that target certain groups.

  Mo Rocca

  Thinking, Voting, Groups

  "Mo Rocca measures the 2012 race in laughs" by Alexander Trowbridge, www.politico.com. September 12, 2012.

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• I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in reality. And reality has a well-known liberal bias.

  Stephen Colbert

  Reality, Men, Thinking

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• A new poll shows that Tiger Woods' popularity has dropped from 85 percent to 33 percent. President Obama's popularity is also at 33 percent, but Tiger had more fun getting there.

  Conan O'Brien

  Fun, President, Woods

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• Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature. I see that a speaker at the week-end said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Leader, Feelings

  Sir Winston Churchill (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941”, William Heinemann

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• Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and that - it's astonishing. These numbers aren't duplicated anywhere else in the industrial world. You'd have to maybe go to mosques in Iran or do a poll among old ladies in Sicily to get numbers like this. Yet this is the American population.

  Noam Chomsky

  Religious, Believe, Iran

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.128, Soft Skull Press

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

  William Eldridge Odom

  Second Chance, Majority, Want

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