Poll Quotes

When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.

When a poll is really, really out of whack with what I want to happen, I do have a tendency to disregard it.

Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.

No poll can equal the day-to-day visits of the men and women of the Democratic Party.

You do now have one in three people, as shown by the famous Carlton Monarchy debate poll, saying they want to get rid of the Monarchy. That was unthinkable even three, four years ago.

Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline.

The poll that matters is the one that happens on Election Day.

I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.

According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September.

I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll.

I think if you look at yesterday's New York Times poll, particularly when you judge Democrats in Congress versus the Republicans in Congress, people put a little more faith, or even a little more than a little more faith in the Democrats in Congress.