Polls

(134 votes)   How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?

Harry S. Truman
1884-1972, Thirty-third President of the USA

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(101 votes)   The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.

E(lwyn) B(rooks) White
1899-1985, American Author, Editor

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(94 votes)   I did not enter the labor Party forty-seven years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr. Mori, Dr. Gallup and Mr. Harris.

Tony Benn
1925-, British Labor Politician

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(94 votes)   The total collapse of the public opinion polls shows that this country is in good health. A country that developed an airtight system of finding out in advance what was in people's minds would be uninhabitable.

E(lwyn) B(rooks) White
1899-1985, American Author, Editor

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website