Michael Bloomberg Quotes

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

I don't look at 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.

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

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

I don't put too much stock in 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.

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

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

Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.

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

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

I've been in politics long enough to know that polls just go poof at times.

Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in life.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

My job as a pollster is to understand what really matters.

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

For 'Power of 10,' you can look at the methodology at CBS.com, it's a company called Rasmussen Reports. We poll thousands and thousands of people for each question, a real cross section of the United States.

I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense.

USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.

Polls are inaccurate in my opinion, based upon anecdotal evidence, based upon people that I know.

I say the one thing about luck is you can't really count on it.

Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.

Predictions are preposterous.