Polls Quotes - Page 17

• When you go to Washington now, you can feel a sense of fear in the air - the fear to do anything, or say anything, that might affect the polls, or give the other side an advantage, or offend a special interest.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Air, Giving, Special

  Michael Bloomberg's Opening Address at Ceasefire Bridging the Political Divide Conference, annenberg.usc.edu. June 20, 2007.

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• I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be.

  Paul Ryan

  Principles, Should, Policy

  "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell, www.nbcnews.com. May 23, 2011.

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• If Hillary Clinton wants to win the White House, she's gonna have to convince Americans they can trust her and if you seen the polls, they don't. There's one American who has faith in her, her husband Bill.

  Eric Bolling

  Husband, Winning, White

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I don't think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system.

  Sargent Shriver

  Educational, Thinking, Goal

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• Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.

  Nate Silver

  Baseball, Games

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

  Nate Silver

  Views, Evil, Roles

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• My goal is not to win a straw poll that doesn't mean something. It's to win the election that means everything for the future of the country.

  Mike Huckabee

  Country, Mean, Winning

  "Mike Huckabee lays out path to 2016 Republican nomination; Amb. John Bolton talks NSA surveillance, growth of ISIS". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 24, 2015.

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• It's important to know that the vast majority of people who were excited in 2008 are still really enthusiastic. We've got more volunteers now than ever, and they're engaged, they're motivated, they're not paying attention to the ups and downs of polls or Washington.

  Barack Obama

  People, Volunteer, Important

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• When I sent out a casual and nonscientific poll of my own to a wide cast of acquaintances, friends and colleagues, I was surprised, but not really, to learn that maybe 60 percent claimed a belief in a God of some sort, including people I would have bet were unregenerate skeptics. Others just shrugged. They don't think about this stuff. It doesn't matter to them. They can't know, they won't beat themselves up trying to know and for that matter they don't care if their kids believe or not.

  Natalie Angier

  Believe, Kids, Thinking

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• I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if He had taken a poll in the land of Israel? Where would the Reformation have gone if Martin Luther had taken a poll? It isn't polls or public opinion alone of the moment that counts.

  Harry S. Truman

  Leadership, Jesus, Taken

  "Harry S. Truman in his own words: by William Hillman; pictures by Alfred Wagg".

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• According to a new poll, Republicans are more likely to have a doughnut for breakfast, while Democrats prefer to eat bagels and croissants. While Independents are that annoying friend who's still looking at the menu after 15 minutes.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Bagels, Breakfast, Republican

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• You're either a rationalist, or you're not. And the good news is a recent poll found 20% of adults under 30 say they are rationalists, and have figured out that Santa Claus and Jesus are really the same guy. Now, 20% is hardly a majority. But it's a bigger minority than blacks, jews, homosexuals, NRA members, teachers, or seniors... and it's certainly enough to stop being shy about expressing the opinion that we're not the crazy ones!

  Bill Maher

  Senior, Teacher, Jesus

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• Because of the spin-meisters and the focus groups and the way politics is run now. It's run by polls and focus groups. So it's even more true today, I think, than it was some 40 years ago.

  Bob Newhart

  Running, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Guy MacPherson, www.guymacpherson.ca. April 14, 2006.

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• To some extent it [Mr. Bush's standing in the polls] is affecting the races, but only because the races really haven't begun. At some point these races are going to be about the two candidates in each race. This is ultimately not going to be about Bush helping or hurting someone getting elected, but ultimately will be about the candidates' records.

  John Brabender

  Hurt, Race, Two

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• The states have the authority to change this voting system for president, right now, in fact, if they wanted, on an emergency basis, they could adopt a ranked-choice system, which simply allows you to go to the poll, and rather than rolling your dice and deciding whether to vote your values or your fears, you get to rank your choices, knowing that if your first choice loses your vote is automatically assigned to your second choice. It's kind of a no-brainer system. It works very well.

  Jill Stein

  Knowing, Voting, Choices

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• I don't accept that. I really don't care - I'm going to be like one of these deniers - I don't care what the polls say.

  John Kasich

  Care, Accepting, I Don't Care

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

  Joe Biden

  Election, Authority, Palestinian

  "Interview With Colin Powell; Interview With Nabil Sha'ath; Interview With Ehud Olmert". "CNN Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer", edition.cnn.com. January 9, 2005.

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• In my view, this is not extremism on the left. This is what the American people support in poll after poll. Support the right to a job. Support living wages. Support real climate action. Support small community-based banks that make loans available to every day people and small businesses, not these too-big-to-fail banks that rip us off, that crash the economy at taxpayer expense. Support a public-option healthcare system, not Obamacare, which has been a boondoggle for insurance and pharmaceutical companies.

  Jill Stein

  Jobs, Rip, Real

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• In 2000 the majority of people wanted me and Buchanan on the debates in two thousand. And me on the debates in 2004. have there been any polls?

  Ralph Nader

  Two, People, Majority

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• My goodness, why is this woman [ Hillary Clinton ] at 46%? She's like the magic 46. She's 46% in the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, she's 46% in a lot of these swing states.

  Anderson Cooper

  Wall, Nbc, Swings

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I don't give much credence to "The Washington Post" polls.

  Eric Trump

  Giving, Posts, Credence

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• On the one hand, to suggest that white poll watchers are going to black communities threatening and provocative. On the other hand is to suggest that if that same line of vote is he also resists making a commitment to honor the winner of the campaign, that there is another agenda.

  Jesse Jackson

  Commitment, Hands, White

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• It's rather remarkable Donald Trump has had over four billion dollars of free primetime media, Hillary's [Clinton] had over two billion worth, my campaign has had essentially zip, yet we are still pushing up around five percent in the polls, which is unprecedented for a non-corporate party without the big money to get the word out.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Media, Two

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• Seventy-five percent of the American people think our country is on the wrong track. Every poll says it. We are going to fix it and we are going to get our country back on the right track very, very quickly.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Thinking, People

  "Donald Trump’s campaign has become one big airing of grievances". www.washingtonpost.com. October 27, 2016.

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• Yes, the presidential race is very close, and some public polls show it getting closer as we go into the final hours, but in one sense it's actually been stable for months.

  Mara Liasson

  Race, Presidential, Finals

  Source: www.npr.org

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