Dick Cheney Quotes
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.
Cheney, Dick. Interview by John King. State of the Union, CNN, 17 Jan. 2010.
He and his Prime Minister, John Majors, had become so unpopular, that they were forced to resign by their own Conservative Party and never had to be voted out of office.
The mayor was confronted with a poll showing that over 70 percent of the public opposed taxpayer support for a sports stadium which would provide subsidies to profitable professional sports teams. Nonetheless he continued to support the idea believing that the issues were too complex for the public to understand.
The mayor had asked his health commissioner what the city could do most to improve the health of its citizens, to which the health commissioner—like amost all public health experts—responded “Cut down the smoking.” Without checking with any other politicians or advisors, Bloomberg just began his now famous campaign for a smake free city. He was criticized, castigated, and sued by local bars and restaurants and national tobacco business. But New York became the first Smoke Free city and others all started emulating New York. This saved more lives than all the rest of the public health programs taken together.
Political polls are very important tools in modern politics. However, they can be, and often are, inaccurate. More often they are misinterpreted, and results can vary extensively depending on how a question is worded. For example, in the 2012 Presidential election Republican Mitt Romney’s polls did not tell him that he would lose by a substantial margin. He, and some of this closest staff, thought they would actually win.
Richard Bruce Cheney is an American politician and businessman who served as the 46th vice president of the United States from 2001 to 2009 under George W. Bush. He has been cited as the most powerful vice president in American history. He is also one of the most unpopular American politicians, holding an approval rating of just 13% upon leaving office. Cheney has been the oldest living former U.S. vice president since 2021, following the death of Walter Mondale.
