Brian Mulroney Quotes

I don't put too much stock in polls.

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

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

Polls are only good for dogs.

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

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'm a believer in the polls, by the way. Rarely do you see a poll that's very far off.

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

Early polls mean nothing.

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 look at polls.

I think we can spend too much time worrying about polls.

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

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.

In polling, truth is what people perceive.

By choice, polls validate the media’s filtered view of the world.

It is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.

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

Being a skeptical and thoughtful consumer of polls is essential.

I don't care what the polls say.

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

One should be weary of drawing too many inferences from a single poll. You can find wildly disparate results with two different polls. There is no question that American Muslims remain one of the most marginalized and demonized groups in United States. There has been a sustained propaganda campaign against Muslims for over a decade and it doesn't disappear over night. Those attitudes are hardened. But one of the things that polling often doesn't measure is the intensity of opinions.

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.

You cannot be driven by the polls. The polls change all the time; they're easily manipulated by whoever wants to ask those poll questions; they go up; they go down.

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