Polls Quotes - page 4

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)
In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country. View quote
Feisal Abdul Rauf
On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no such power to defend her interests at the polls, as is the heritage of her brothers at home. View quote
Florence Kelley
Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the appeal from Bin Laden and his allies to stay at home. View quote
Gijs de Vries
In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector. View quote
Geoff Mulgan
They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies. View quote
James L. Buckley
Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting. View quote
Jack Germond
I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense. View quote
Jim Bolger
I can tell you if you look at the polls, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they do not think we should increase the debt limit. View quote
Jim DeMint
And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet. View quote
Joe Eszterhas
According to recent opinion polls, a large majority of Iraqis believe that the U.S. military has no intention to leave Iraq, and that it would stay even is asked by the Iraqi government to leave. (John Conyers)
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. View quote
John Podhoretz
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. View quote
John Podhoretz
When you go to the polls, ethics and morality should be part of the evaluation. View quote
John Shimkus
The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls. View quote
John T. Flynn
President Obama is now losing to 'Republican Nominee' in polls - no name needed. View quote
Jon Meacham
I don't think everyone should vote. If you have to be dragged into the polls, carried into the polls and smelling salts have to be used, you probably shouldn't be voting. However, we shouldn't be putting up barriers to voting that target certain groups. View quote
Mo Rocca
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. View quote
Paul Bremer
I've said it before, I'll say it again, Sarah Palin will never recover from this ... No matter what people say, no matter what these polls, she has no future. View quote
David Shuster
If there were an election today, Netanyahu would win. Yet, his standing in the polls is also a reflection of the weakness of Ehud Olmert, the current prime minister - who stands at 2 percent in a recent poll - and the enduring weaknesses of the Labor Party. View quote
Dennis Ross
We know that this is a power which may be abused; but that is no argument against its existence. For protection against abuses by legislatures the people must resort to the polls, not to the courts. (Morrison Waite)
By your victory at the polls, you have put to shame the revisionists and their agenda in the Church of Christ, and particularly in the Episcopal Church of United States of America (ECUSA). I hope that by your election victory, these ordained men and women will feel rebuked and be forced to repent of this grievous sin of repudiating the word of God, and to seek genuine restoration. View quote
Peter Akinola
I'm going to be the nominee. It's very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high I'm going to be the nominee. View quote
Newt Gingrich
You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research. View quote
Nancy Reagan
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls. View quote
Al Gore