#polls

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

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

In fact - statistically, as you know - people have done polls, research, and at least 80 percent or more or working media are liberal Democrats if they are involved with any party and certainly liberal in their philosophy. ↗

— Pat Boone

#certainly #democrats #done #fact #in fact

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. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#around #cabinet #consensus #dynamics #executives

Don't worry about polls, but if you do, don't admit it. ↗

— Rosalynn Carter

#admit #polls #worry #you

The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive. ↗

— Geraldine Ferraro

#had #humor #i #indicated #know

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

#asked #believe #even #government #intention

In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#church #die #done #even #last

Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments. ↗

— Benny Goodman

#instruments #learn #many #musicians #polls

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. ↗

— Florence Kelley

#awarded #brothers #cut #defend #hand