George Gallup Quotes

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

The public is never wrong.

It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.

The public is always right.

The majority is always sane.

It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they do not receive that inclination from the few persons who may happen to approach them.

Reason will conclude that where multitude is, there is the truth.

I am persuaded myself that the good sense of the people will always be found to be the best army.

About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.

A faction may beat a faction, at a pretty fair and even conflict; but in a fair and full contest, it can never beat the people. The great art of factions is to keep the decision from the body of the people.

I have never seen a poll elect anyone

I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.

My opinion is not valuable to the general public.

No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

I guess the President says the majority of the people didn't elect him, he doesn't have to listen to 'em anyway.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

I am not liked as a president by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment–the sober second thought–of the people

Government exists to protect the interests of the powerful from the will of the people.

The voice of the people hath some divineness in it, else how should so many men agree to be of one mind?

Polls make leadership impossible.

When politicians try to govern by raising a wet finger to the wind or on the basis of public opinion polling, the public gets to think that all leaders are interchangeable.

Trust the people. They’ll get it right. They always do.

I trust the American people. They almost always get it right …

I grieve to see that the Government is governed by the hurrahs of the soldiers or the citizens. It does not lead opinion, but follows it.

The instinct of the people is right.