Polls Quotes - Page 18

• I want the ones that stood up for the Tea Party when the Tea Party was being pilloried by the mainstream media. I like the Bachmanns and the Palins and the Wests and I like the Herman Cains, I like Thaddeus McCotter, I like fighters, and I don't like the poll-tested ones.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Party, Media, Tea

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• When [Donald Trump] talks about a rigged election, he's not talking about the fact that it's going to be rigged at the polls. What he's talking about is 80% to 85% of the media is against him.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Media, Talking, Facts

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• In a Bloomberg poll, 88% of respondents said that Wall Street bonuses should either be banned outright or taxed at 50%. Just 7% said they should remain an incentive. To put that 7% figure in perspective, 6% of Americans believe the moon landings were a hoax; 7% believe Elvis lives; 24% believe that Barack Obama is a secret Muslim; 41% believe in ESP; and 48% believe in creationism. Americans will believe anything, it seems-except the idea that incentivizing bankers at systemically important institutions to take big risks makes any sense at all.

  Felix Salmon

  Wall, Believe, Moon

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• I'd rather have head to head and right now they're not getting any numbers. She's [Jill Stein] doing better than he [Gary Johnson] is, but right now in some polls she's actually not doing badly.

  Donald Trump

  Numbers, Jill Stein, Johnson

  "Donald Trump transcript: The Republican nominee in his own words". www.washingtonpost.com. August 2, 2016.

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• I said, "Suppose communists come out against cancer, do we have to automatically come out for cancer?'" I can't take back that I'm against the poll tax, that I'm against lynching, that I'm for peace.

  Studs Terkel

  Cancer, Lynching, Communist

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• Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort on the part of Negro leaders to arouse their people from their apathetic indifference.... In the past, apathy was a moral failure. Today, it is a form of moral and political suicide.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Suicide, Exercise, Past

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• Polls show that most people in the world favor humbler, more compassionate solutions to our common problems. Not only favor them but, resolving to love in a more complete and final way, try to put them into action. A society based on universal compassion is not just our only hope; it is an evolutionary imperative.

  Marc Ian Barasch

  Compassion, People, Trying

  Marc Ian Barasch (2010). “The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness”, p.386, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

  John Updike

  Rotting, Too Much, Dandelions

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Redux”, p.120, Random House

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• In most polls there are always about 5 percent of the people who 'don't know.' What isn't generally understood is that it's the same people in every poll.

  George Carlin

  People, Understood, Percent

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness and grace, maturity and wisdom. ...Our political leaders will know our priorities only if we tell them, again and again, and if those priorities begin to show up in the polls.

  Peggy Noonan

  Country, Maturity, Long

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• If the Democrats have their way, African Americans will continue to feel oppressed, despised and handicapped into the indefinite future. All progress will be downplayed and every setback amplified. In this way, Democrats can continue to rely on lopsided black support at the polls.

  Mona Charen

  Support, African American, Black

  Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel

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• Whereas our grandparents lived as if they had swallowed gyroscopes, we think and act as if we have swallowed Gallup polls.

  Os Guinness

  Thinking, Grandparent, Ifs

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• Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.

  Billy Graham

  Selfish, Agency, People

  Billy Graham (2013). “The Reason for My Hope: Salvation”, p.105, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The democratic race is really boring when the media is basically writing stories and spending money to ask questions in a poll about somebody who is not even a declared candidate.

  Dana Perino

  Writing, Race, Media

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• You have to take risks on policy. You can't be a politician, wringing your hands, worried about what the public opinion polls are saying or worried about the negative attacks. If you believe in something, go fight for it.

  Scott Pelley

  Believe, Fighting, Hands

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• One-fifth of Americans, 20% believe that Barak Obama is, himself, a Muslim and in fact - amongst Republicans that number is almost 40%. Polls show in this country, that the more you disagree with Barak Obama's domestic policies, the more likely you are to think that he is a Muslim.

  Reza Aslan

  Country, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• You never know. It started with me in Louisiana when I won Louisiana and I got fewer delegates than Ted Cruz. I win a state, I get fewer votes. Then, I poll great in Colorado and all of a sudden . . . the voters aren't going to choose. The bosses are going to choose. Anything is possible.

  Donald Trump

  Winning, Boss, Colorado

  "Donald Trump transcript: The Republican nominee in his own words". www.washingtonpost.com. August 2, 2016.

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• I get ratings. If I didn't get ratings, they [media] wouldn't do it. They don't care about poll numbers, they only care about ratings.

  Donald Trump

  Media, Numbers, Care

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• You can't depend on polls.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Depends

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• What's really appealing about women's cycling in America? If you took a poll in the women's peloton, I would bet you that 90% of the women have college degrees, and a lot of them have Masters. The women's peloton is very well educated.

  Kristin Armstrong

  College, Cycling, America

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• Seventy-five percent of voters now [in September 2016], according to the latest poll, want third-party candidates included in the debate. We have the highest disapproval and distrust rates ever in our history for these two presidential candidates, which the system is doing everything it can to force down our throats.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Two, Presidential

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I would tell your generation, wherever you are on the totem poll - whether you're halfway there or at the bottom, don't despise small beginnings; small beginnings get you ready for great things.

  T. D. Jakes

  Halfway There, Generations, Totems

  "T.D. Jakes Talks: Second Chances, Humble Beginnings & Knowing Your Worth". Interview with Zon D'Amour, lasentinel.net. September 21, 2016.

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• My particular worries on any given day - how I'm doing in the polls or what somebody is saying about me... for good or for ill - isn't particularly relevant. What is relevant is: What am I building that lasts?

  Barack Obama

  Worry, Lasts, Building

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• It`s been a long and tumultuous relationship between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz that started off more or less as allies during the Republican primary. As Trump took the early lead in polls, Cruz stuck with the strategy of drafting off of the front-runner waiting for the moment to make his move.

  Chris Hayes

  Moving, Long, Waiting

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Especially without coverage, we have made it to 4, 5, 6% in the polls just on the power of the public interest out there from Americans who feel like they've been thrown under the bus by the two conventional parties.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Two, Made

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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