Polls Quotes - Page 6

• I'm not trying to win a popularity poll. I'm trying to win football games.

  Woody Hayes

  Football, Winning, Games

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• When a poll is really, really out of whack with what I want to happen, I do have a tendency to disregard it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Want, Tendencies, Disregard

  "The Emotional Poll Roller Coaster". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. September 24, 2012.

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• Last month, the Iraqi people went to the polls, voting in their first free election in more than 50 years.

  John M. McHugh

  Years, People, Voting

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• President Obama is now losing to 'Republican Nominee' in polls - no name needed.

  Jon Meacham

  Names, President, Losing

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• Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier.

  Marty Meehan

  Views, United States, Percent

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• America's got a Darwin problem - and it matters. According to a 2009 Gallup poll taken on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, fewer than 40% of Americans are willing to say that they 'believe in evolution.'

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Anniversary, Believe, Taken

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• If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

  Barack Obama

  Reading, Decision, Made

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or at the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it must be levity.

  Tom Robbins

  Attitude, Opposites, People

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.138, Bantam

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• I don't care what the polls say. I don't.

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, Care, I Don't Care

  "THE 2000 CAMPAIGN; Excerpts From Interview With Bush on Campaign Issues and Election Strategy". www.nytimes.com. March 16, 2000.

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• America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbornly rejected math, facts, and polls to their electoral peril. While Republicans tailored their platform by and for the pale stale and male, among us, Obama and Democrats are embracing America's diverse mosaic.

  Christine Pelosi

  Math, America, Males

  "President Obama and Democrats Won Embracing Demography as Destiny" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Identity, Politician, Percentages

  Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.185, Macmillan

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• No matter what you do, if your heart is ever true,
  And his heart was true to Poll.

  Francis Cowley Burnand

  Life, Heart, Matter

  Francis Cowley Burnand (1871). “Poll and Partner Joe; Or, The Pride of Putney and the Pressing Pirate: A New and Original Nautical Burlesque ...”

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• If you do have to look at polls, you should do it no more than once every few days, to get a general sense of the state of the race. I've seen the work on information overload, which makes people depressed, stressed and freezes their brains. I know that checking the polls constantly is a recipe for self-deception and anxiety.

  David Brooks

  Race, Self, People

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• The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.

  John Podhoretz

  Firsts, Exit, Disappointing

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• Judging by opinion polls, Israel has bigger problems than me. It is among the most hated countries on the planet. It should stop acting like a lunatic state. Once it carries on like a normal country, I will be happily redirect my energies elsewhere.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Country, Hate, Crazy

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• You'd think experienced political professionals would know better than to place their trust in exit polls, notoriously inaccurate surveys that had John Kerry winning the 2004 election by five points when he actually lost by three.

  John Podhoretz

  Winning, Thinking, Political

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• The question taxpayers keep asking is 'why should we pay for services for those who have broken the law to get here?' They should not, nor should they be forced to be the Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) and School District of the world. This is evidenced in every poll I have seen indicating that every ethnic group is opposed to illegal immigration and supports enforcement of the law.

  Michael D. Antonovich

  School, Organization, Law

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• A new poll shows that Senator Kerry's support in the South is strongest amongst blacks. Kerry's appeal to Southern blacks is obvious. He is a white man who lives far, far away.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Country, Facts, Spite

  "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. September 12, 2010.

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• You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.

  Rand Paul

  Looks, Term Limits, Republican

  "Rand Paul on 'Tea Party Tidal Wave'". Interview with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. May 11, 2010.

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• Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.

  John Podhoretz

  People, May, Desperate

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• In a sense the U.S. is climate illiterate. If you look at global polls about what the public knows about climate change even in Brazil, China you have more people who know about the problem and think deep cuts in emission are needed.

  Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

  Cutting, Thinking, People

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• In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.

  Lucy Powell

  Numbers, Mps, Trends

  "Despite Sarah Palin, the glass ceiling for women in politics remains" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2008.

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• The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.

  Ed Koch

  People, Four, Firsts

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• Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

  Dennis Prager

  Persons, Left

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