Polls Quotes - Page 14

• Friends, haters, it's Twitter poll time. What do you think most holds back justice and equality for women? All thoughts welcome!

  Olivia Wilde

  Thinking, Bad Ass, Justice

  Twitter post from Feb 07, 2014

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

  Herman Cain

  Party, Winning, Guy

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• Nursing is great for so many reasons, but there is one reason that means more than any poll results, amount of money, or job security: Nurses make a difference.

  Brittney Wilson

  Jobs, Mean, Nursing

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• Polls are the corporate media's standardized tests to determine how well we have learned what it has taught us.

  Sam Smith

  Media, Taught Us, Democracy

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• Half the population hold that the government is run by a few big interests looking out for themselves, as polls regularly show.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Government, Population

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• The evidence is overwhelming that Planet Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled extraterrestrial spacecraft. In other words, SOME UFOs are alien spacecraft. Most are not. It's clear from the Opinion Polls and my own experience, that indeed most people accept the notion that SOME UFOs are alien spacecraft. The greater the education, the MORE likely to accept this proposition

  Stanton T. Friedman

  People, Earth, Opinion

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• You know, there was a recent poll which said that young people in the generation of the students here felt it was far more likely that they would see a UFO than that they would draw Social Security... It's very important you understand this. Once you understand this, you realize this is not an episode from the X Files, and you're not more likely to see a UFO if you do certain specific things.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Important, Generations

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• My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Party, Long, Liberty

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.31, Best Books on

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• In fact - statistically, as you know - people have done polls, research, and at least 80 percent or more or working media are liberal Democrats if they are involved with any party and certainly liberal in their philosophy.

  Pat Boone

  Philosophy, Party, Media

  Interview with Wes Vernon, www.renewamerica.com. January 9, 2006.

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• I'm often amazed at the way politicians, who spend hours poring over opinion poll results in a desperate attempt to discover what the public thinks, are certain they know precisely what God's views are on everything.

  Simon Hoggart

  Thinking, Views, Way

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• I’m searching for some exit poll data from California. I’ll eat my shorts if gay and lesbian voters went for McCain at anything approaching the rate that black voters went for Prop 8.

  Dan Savage

  Gay, Data, California

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• A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times.

  Andrew Denton

  Believe, Years, Ends

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies.

  James L. Buckley

  Lying, Understanding, Different

  James L. Buckley (2010). “Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State”, p.247, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You’re talking about Rwanda or Bangladesh, or Cambodia, or the Philippines. They’ve got democracy, according to Freedom House. But have you got a civilised life to lead? People want economic development first and foremost. The leaders may talk something else. You take a poll of any people. What is it they want? The right to write an editorial as you like? They want homes, medicine, jobs, schools.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Jobs, School, Home

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• Not a day goes by that I don't click on RealClearPolitics at least once, the presidential poll charts, graphs and moving averages are great. If RCP didn't already exist, somebody would have to invent it.

  Charlie Cook

  Moving, Average, Presidential

  "About RealClearPolitics". National Journal, www.realclearpolitics.com.

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• The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls.

  John T. Flynn

  Victory, Groups, Dollars

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• I've been in politics long enough to know that polls just go poof at times.

  George W. Bush

  Long, Enough, Knows

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• In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no 'two evils' exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Party, Believe, Names

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• Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations.

  David R. Brower

  Thinking, Suggestions, Generations

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• Of course I base all my election promises and policies on opinion polls

  Kevin Rudd

  Promise, Opinion, Election

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• In the news this week, the polls continue to slide for Gordon Brown and some people are saying he's dead and buried. But I think the opposite - I say GORDON'S ALIVE!

  Brian Blessed

  Thinking, Opposites, People

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• Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty, and the end of welfare and affirmative action.

  Ron Paul

  Political Opinions, Support, Liberty

  Ron Paul's newsletter (1992), as quoted in "10 Extreme Claims in Ron Paul’s Controversial Newsletters" by Andy Kroll, www.motherjones.com. January 3, 2012.

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• A new poll reveals that 56% of Americans believe that Wal-Mart is bad for the country, while the other 44% work there.

  Amy Poehler

  Country, Believe

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• Various polls have indicated that approximately 10% of Americans (25 million people) have seen them at close range so that details of the structure of the object can be discerned.

  Steven M. Greer

  People, Details, Structure

  Steven M. Greer (1999). “Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications”, Crossing Point Incorporated

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• According to the latest poll, a record 73 percent of Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction. But the good news: Gas is so expensive that we'll never get there.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Thinking, News

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