Donald Trump Quotes

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

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

I don't put a lot of stock into polls.

Most public polling continues to be reported on strictly from a topline, horserace-type perspective that does nothing, or at best very little, to illuminate the news of the day.

I don't put too much stock in polls.

Opinion polls are not worth the paper they are written on, in my view, through the conference season. They don't settle down again until November.

I don't look at polls.

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

Let me tell you the polls that count, and those are the polls a couple of weeks before the election. That's when the pollsters worry about holding onto their credibility. Those are the polls that everybody remembers.

Opinion polls sponsored by newspapers were traditionally meant to bring to the fore the mood of the people objectively.

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.

Sometimes you will hear me say right on the air, 'You just cited a poll that is not even part of Real Clear Politics,' which is an average, an aggregate. Yours is seeming to be an outlier. Give me the name of that poll and the date that it was taken. I will say it right on the air.

I generally believe in polls. Scientific polls are accurate.

I believe that the polling data that shows people give Obama 53% approval, I happen to think the polls are right. I just think people are not being honest with the pollster.

The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.

You can't depend on polls.

The last thing you want to do is read the latest poll and then make policy.

Polls are only good for dogs.

I'd rather be underestimated by the polltakers than by the voters.

Early polls mean nothing.

The pollsters and pundits will keep trying to read voters' minds.

Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.

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.

There are so many ways and different people who show up and vote now. The way turnout works now. The abilities we have now to turn out voters. The polling can't understand that. And that's why the polling was so wrong in 2016. It was 100% wrong. Nobody got it right - not one public poll.

I don't care what the polls say.