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  • I have never been over concerned or obsessed with opinion polls or popularity polls. I think a leader who is, is a weak leader. Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I'm meaningless.

    Thinking   Wind   Leader  
    "The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew". Book by Lee Kuan Yew, www.aljazeera.com. 1997.
  • The most absurd public opinion polls are those on taxes. Now, if there is one thing we know about taxes, it is that people do not want to pay them. If they wanted to pay them, there would be no need for taxes. People would gladly figure out how much of their money that the government deserves and send it in. And yet we routinely hear about opinion polls that reveal that the public likes the tax level as it is and might even like it higher. Next they will tell us that the public thinks the crime rate is too low, or that the American people would really like to be in more auto accidents.

    "Speaking of Liberty". Book by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, 2003.
  • This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion.

    Party   Phones   Focus  
    Hansard (parlamentary debates transcript), January 29, 2003.
  • If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

    Funny   Witty   Tired  
  • Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty, and the end of welfare and affirmative action.

    Ron Paul's newsletter (1992), as quoted in "10 Extreme Claims in Ron Paul’s Controversial Newsletters" by Andy Kroll, www.motherjones.com. January 3, 2012.
  • Judging by opinion polls, Israel has bigger problems than me. It is among the most hated countries on the planet. It should stop acting like a lunatic state. Once it carries on like a normal country, I will be happily redirect my energies elsewhere.

    Country   Hate   Crazy  
  • I think you can not be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls.

    "Dick Cheney's Last Word" by Dorian de Wind, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 27, 2011.
  • If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.

  • These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls.

  • Democracy suits Europeans today partly because it is associated with the triumph of capitalism and partly because it involves less commitment or intrusion into their lives than any of the alternatives. Europeans accept democracy because they no longer believe in politics. It is for this reason that we find both high levels of support for democracy in cross-national opinion polls and high rates of political apathy.

  • There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress. The majority consciousness has changed, and often that has made very clear, practical changes in our daily lives, but the centers of power are still not occupied, for the most part, by this new consciousness.

    Source: collider.com
  • Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

  • I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.

    Address to the Nation Pardoning Richard M. Nixon, delivered on September 8, 1974, Washington D.C.
  • I wanted to come to Washington, D.C. and help be a transformative President. And I think history, when they look back, will say this is a fellow who knew how to make decisions, and made some tough ones, stood by them, wasn't driven by the latest opinion poll, but was driven by some core principles from which he would not deviate.

    Interview, www.politico.com. May 13, 2008.
  • Of course I base all my election promises and policies on opinion polls

  • ...The British press... [claimed that Tony] Blair was simply Bush's poodle - a favorite phrase, bewilderingly popular, although it made no sense - and that he was ignoring the will of the British people. Considering the hacks had spent Blair's first six years in office condemning him for relying on focus groups and opinion polls for his policies - in other words, paying attention to nothing but the will of the people, or at least their whims - that seemed a little rich to me, but as I said, logical consistency has never figured highly in the British media's scale of values.

    Media   Years   People  
  • I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right. I do believe that right makes might and that if I am wrong, 10 angels swearing I was right would make no difference. I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.

    Believe   Heart   Humble  
    Address to the Nation Pardoning Richard M. Nixon, delivered on September 8, 1974, Washington D.C.
  • If you look at the public opinion polls even, support for all the issues, people who self-identify as feminists are as least as many as those who self-identify as Republicans.

    Self   Issues   People  
    Source: bluestockingsmag.com
  • The liberated man is not the one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth, or his transparency; he is the man who changes spaces, who circulates, who changes sex, clothes, and habits according to fashion, rather than morality, and who changes opinions not as his conscience dictates but in response to opinion polls.

    Funny   Fashion   Sex  
  • This is God's standards [against same-sex marriage and abortions]. And just because public opinion may have changed or somebody takes a poll - this is just one of the issues. And it doesn't matter what people say or what people think. It doesn't matter about the opinion polls. It's what God says, and God says this is a sin. And it's a sin against him, and he's going to judge sin.

    Sex   Thinking   Issues  
    Source: www.npr.org
  • With the greatest respect, we do not make the criminal law on the basis of opinion polls. A majority of 9:1 could be in favour of a ban in my constituency, but I would not regard that as conclusive, and I hope that we never would. If we start having opinion polls about all the unpleasant and distasteful habits and customs of some members of society, and suggesting that their findings should be made part of the criminal law, foxhunting would come way down the list, and quite a lot of strange enactments would have to go through the House.

    Hunting   Law   House  
  • A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

    Life   War   Generosity  
    "7 insightful investing quotes from Warren Buffett", vintagevalueinvesting.com. September 28, 2017.
  • Nobody looks at opinion polls with more attention than politicians, but of course you've got to remember that a single poll is a snapshot in time.

    Source: www.abc.net.au
  • People feel that European institutions are remote and bureaucratic, run by shady cosmopolitan elites. Britain is not absolutely exceptional because if you look at the opinion polls, those sentiments are now quite widespread also in continental Europe.

    Running   Europe   People  
    "Tracing The 43-Year History Of The U.K. In The European Union". "All Things Considered" with Ray Suarez, www.npr.org. June 25, 2016.
  • There is only one opinion poll that I am interested in and that is the one that will take place on election day.

  • I think it's offensive to equate evangelical Christians, Catholics, others that view marriage as between a man and a woman, as being racist. We're not racist. We love our fellow man, we think we're all equal under God's eyes, we don't believe we should change the definition of marriage simply because of opinion polls or because of a court that quite frankly isn't looking at the constitution.

    Christian   Believe   Eye  
    "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. June 28, 2015.
  • I treat opinion polls with a pinch of sugar.

    Sugar   Opinion   Treats  
  • The evidence is overwhelming that Planet Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled extraterrestrial spacecraft. In other words, SOME UFOs are alien spacecraft. Most are not. It's clear from the Opinion Polls and my own experience, that indeed most people accept the notion that SOME UFOs are alien spacecraft. The greater the education, the MORE likely to accept this proposition

    People   Earth   Opinion  
  • Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words 'gay marriage' are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.

    "Bush's Weapon Against Dean" by Dick Morris, www.foxnews.com. November 5, 2003.
  • The temptation to be popular may prioritize public opinion above the word of God. Political campaigns and marketing strategies widely employ public opinion polls to shape their plans. Results of those polls are informative. But they could hardly be used as grounds to justify disobedience to God’s commandments!

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