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I mean you really can target your answers to get the instant response and I think that is a very manipulative type of polling. I really have no time for that worm at all. ↗

— Jim Bolger

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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. ↗

— Jim Bolger

#away #ban #dominant #fascinating #from time to time

So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in. ↗

— Jim Bolger

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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#brought #cereal #controversial #family #family planning

Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage. ↗

— John Bolton

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There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism. ↗

— John Bolton

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I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#during #give #had #haven #hour

Abroad, our most important policy is to support our troops and continue forward-thinking foreign policy in the war on terror - keeping our enemies on the run and hitting them before they hit us. ↗

— Christopher Bond

#before #continue #foreign #foreign policy #hit

For America's economic future to remain prosperous, we must encourage pro-growth policies so that we continue to be the leader in innovation and entrepreneurship. ↗

— John Ensign

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And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings. ↗

— Julian Bond

#announcing #anyone #board #day #end