Pollsters Quotes

#1. God created astrologers to make pollsters look accurate.

John Kasich

#2. Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

Dan Quayle

#3. If you force people to express an opinion, they are likely to create one just to get through your form. The problem is that opinions created on the spot are variable, as many opinion pollsters know to their cost.

Caroline Jarrett

#4. Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future ... We watch our experts read the entrails of statistical tables and graphs the way the ancients watched their soothsayers read the entrails of a chicken.

Eric Hoffer

#5. No matter how invasive the technologies at their disposal, marketers and pollsters never come to terms with the living process through which people choose products or candidates; they are looking at what people just bought or thought, and making calculations based on that after-the-fact data.

Douglas Rushkoff

#6. There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?

Bob Woodward

#7. I want to believe in prophecies more than policies. I want to listen to poets rather than pollsters.

Carolina De Robertis

#8. Forget the consultants, the pundits and the pollsters; good policy is good politics.

Jim DeMint

#9. You know that a plan was dreamed up by politicians and pollsters - and not by, oh, anyone who knows what they are talking about - when the numbers are nice and round with a catchy ring to them ...

Jerry Taylor

#10. Why do I think the polls were wrong? People were relying on the pollsters. There was "the Brexit Effect." I think there's a Trump Effect, too. I think people are lying to the pollsters about Trump. There isn't any question about it.

Rush Limbaugh

#11. Let me tell you the polls that count, and those are the polls a couple of weeks before the election. That's when the pollsters worry about holding onto their credibility. Those are the polls that everybody remembers.

Rush Limbaugh

#12. The pollsters and pundits will keep trying to read voters' minds.

Rick Scott

#13. All we can tell you is that this race is too close for honest pollsters to predict.

Ed Garvey

#14. I'm not sure people are ever completely comfortable telling pollsters what they do and don't think.

Diane Sawyer

#15. The most famous case was the so-called Bradley effect: in 1982, California voters told exit pollsters they had elected a black governor, Tom Bradley, by a significant margin, but in the privacy of the ballot box they had actually given his white opponent a narrow victory.

Anonymous

#16. If I worried about pollsters, I wouldn't be president.

Jose Mujica

#17. Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists nor the great scientists, neither the great statesmen nor the great sport figures, but those who master a hard lot with their heads held high.

Viktor E. Frankl

#18. No new social class came to power through the door of the American revolution. The men who engineered the revolt were largely members of the colonial ruling class.

Howard Zinn

#19. She looked into the shadowed corners of the room. Talking with him was like having a flower unfold inside her chest, then close up tight. Creep open. Collapse in on itself.

Marie Rutkoski

#20. Ending a quarrel is more honourable than beginning one.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#21. Life's most profound moments were, paradoxically, its most common ones: first breaths, and last.

Therese Anne Fowler

#22. He may be a Christian by common profession; but, in a saving sense, no man is a Christian, in whose soul any thing hath a greater and higher interest than God the Father, and the Mediator (352).

Richard Baxter