Public Opinion Polls Quotes

#1. I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments.

Bruce Babbitt

#2. I think you can not be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls.

Dick Cheney

#3. Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

J.B. Priestley

#4. I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.

Gerald R. Ford

#5. 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

#6. Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

Henry A. Kissinger

#7. By more than two to one Americans do not consider what Kevorkian did, injecting a terminally ill patient with legal drugs at the patient's request, to be the same as murder. You may want to note that laws are not supposed to be enforced on the basis of public opinion polls.

Dan Rather

#8. Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words 'gay marriage' are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.

Dick Morris

#9. Public opinion polls have long proved there is majority support for pretty much every issue that the women's movement has brought up, but those of us, women or men, who identify with feminism are still made to feel isolated, wrong, out of step.

Gloria Steinem

#10. There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress.

Gloria Steinem

#11. This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion.

Stephen Harper

#12. Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

Dan Rather

#13. If you look at the public opinion polls even, support for all the issues, people who self-identify as feminists are as least as many as those who self-identify as Republicans.

Gloria Steinem

#14. Her glare was so intense that you completely forgot she was wearing pink.

Eoin Colfer

#15. That's a phenomenon of the Left: You don't fight evil. You fight carbon emissions

Dennis Prager

#16. The sacred soul writes the sacred words.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership
men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.

Harry S. Truman

#18. What's wrong with musicals now is all the gifted men who've died of AIDS-who would otherwise be here today creating great theater.

Madeline Kahn

#19. The deepest need of my soul isn't a personal organizer or an empty inbox. The deepest need of my soul is Christ.

Emily P. Freeman

#20. Feel what I feel within myself - that is trying to become aware of it also what I feel in others not being ashamed of my feeling, thoughts - or ideas realize the thing that they are -

Marilyn Monroe

#21. But children can't be a center of life and a reason for being. They can be a thousand things that are delightful, interesting, satisfying, but they can't be a well-spring to live from. Or they shouldn't be.

Doris Lessing

#22. The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you.

Rush Limbaugh

#23. While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I've seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them.

Paul Bremer

#24. Let the thrill go - let it die away - go on through that period of death into the quieter interest and happiness that follow - and you will find you are living in a world of new thrills all the time.

C.S. Lewis

#25. Mankind's real moral test, a test so radical and so deep that it escapes our gaze, is probably the one of its relations with those that are the most at its mercy; the Animals.

Milan Kundera

#26. There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker, John Boehner.

Chris Christie

#27. So Republican candidates bash Obamacare and move up in the polls. Given that public opinion remains firmly against the health care law - as it has been for years - that's not a shock. Democratic beliefs to the contrary are probably wishful thinking.

Byron York

#28. Stubborn isn't a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate.

Michael Bloomberg

#29. Kitsch lives with one foot in the realm of aesthetics and another foot in the realm of ethics.

Roger Kimball

#30. I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.

Adam Levine