(238 quotes found)
“How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?.”
Harry S Truman
“A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.”
Dan Quayle
“A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.”
Warren Buffett
“The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody sober enough to stagger to the polls will.”
Will Rogers
“Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.”
Dan Rather
“Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll,Who wrote like an angel, and talk’d like poor Poll.”
David Garrick
“If you look at the polls, you'd have to say, the mayor is likely to win. I don't believe in polls, but a lot of Democrats are saying, 'It's over.' I know Freddy is not saying that, and I'm not saying that. You just have to hold out hope.”
Geraldine Ferraro
“[He said U.S. opinion polls showed 70 percent of Americans supported stem-cell research for medical reasons.] My message to the president would be to rethink his position in light of the fact that there is overwhelming popular support [for it], ... I think he really needs to look again at his position and to re-evaluate it.”
Christopher Reeve
“The polls don't mean much at this point. ... it's going to come down to whoever has the best organization,”
Howard Dean
“His comment was, 'If there's going to be a poll, you'd like to be as high in it as possible because if there's going to be a beauty contest, you'd like to win,' ... One of the goals we had eight years ago was to make sure Texas is placed back in the elite of college football, and obviously this season we will be.”
Mack Brown
