Enda Kenny Quotes

You can't depend on polls.

My job as a pollster is to understand what really matters.

I know that a lot of people love to say that polls are wrong or don't matter, and from time to time they are - it depends on who they are polling.

I don't look at polls.

Surveys give us a way of finding out what people across the country are thinking.

I don't pay a lot of attention to polls.

Every time I think that political analysts and writers will finally recognize that most of them don't understand much about political polls, they prove me wrong. They don't know how to read them; they don't understand the importance of cross tabs within a given poll, and they don't know how to analyze them.

If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

For 'Power of 10,' you can look at the methodology at CBS.com, it's a company called Rasmussen Reports. We poll thousands and thousands of people for each question, a real cross section of the United States.

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

We don't base our opinions on the Gallup Poll.

I've learned a long time ago not to take polls too seriously.

Polls are like perfume—very nice to smell; dangerous to drink.

You can't just take and sample size a few hundred people and decide that what you think 200 - almost 200 million people are going to vote and go do. It's a complex country.

Polling is an art as well as a science, and the art of crafting good questions is still vital.

I don't believe in traditional, head-to-head polling.

Banning pre-poll surveys is certainly no answer in today's world. Sensitising the public and the media as to the good, bad, and desirable aspects of survey research is more sensible than that.

If I believed in polls, I wouldn't get up in the morning.

I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris

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.

You can use data wrong. It's just like polling. There have been a lot of politicians who go conduct a poll to figure out what they believe.

Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.

There are so many things the people who take polls never get around to asking.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.