#pol

I don't think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#educational #gallup #goals #going #helpful

Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#desire #figure #help #his #ideals

I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil. ↗

— Nate Silver

#good #i #more #now #poll

Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much. ↗

— Nate Silver

#baseball #game #just #much #poll

First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views. ↗

— Nate Silver

#cover #first #first of all #i #i think

I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt. ↗

— Nate Silver

#guess #i #like #much #people

I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts. ↗

— Nate Silver

#i #i think #kind #market #polling

I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics. ↗

— Nate Silver

#competition #data #discovered #i #like

If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't. ↗

— Nate Silver

#event #foreign #foreign policy #gets #major

In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right. ↗

— Nate Silver

#getting #off #one thing #people #politics