Gore Vidal Quotes

I don't put too much stock in polls.

You can't depend on polls.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Like any poll, it depends on the ethnicity of the person asking the questions and the nature of the questions.

I have never had an interest in opinion polls. They are merely an indicator, that's all.

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.

A poll survey should indicate at the outset whether it is meant to capture opinions and beliefs for preferences and practices or value and perceptions.

I think polling methodology is broken.

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 care what the polls say.

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

I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in reality. And reality has a well-known liberal bias.

If I worried about pollsters, I wouldn't be president.

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

Polls are only good for dogs.

In polling, truth is what people perceive.

Pete Wilson was never more than the sum total of his focus groups.

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

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