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The evidence is overwhelming that Planet Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled extraterrestrial spacecraft. In other words, SOME UFOs are alien spacecraft. Most are not. It's clear from the Opinion Polls and my own experience, that indeed most people accept the notion that SOME UFOs are alien spacecraft. The greater the education, the MORE likely to accept this proposition -- Stanton T. Friedman
Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls. -- Dan Rather
Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing. -- J. B. Priestley
These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls. -- Jacques Delors
According to recent opinion polls, a large majority of Iraqis believe that the U.S. military has no intention to leave Iraq, and that it would stay even is asked by the Iraqi government to leave. -- John Conyers
This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion. -- Stephen Harper
I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments. -- Bruce Babbitt
And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet. -- Joe Eszterhas
The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was doing work on the ground. I think the important thing is that my candidacy was born from citizens themselves, driven by the people and which the parties picked up favorably. -- Michelle Bachelet
A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. -- Warren Buffett
I treat opinion polls with a pinch of sugar. -- Ed Miliband
Of course I base all my election promises and policies on opinion polls -- Kevin Rudd
If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership. -- Margaret Thatcher
I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right. -- Gerald R. Ford
Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words 'gay marriage' are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it. -- Dick Morris
Opinion polls are not worth the paper they are written on, in my view, through the conference season. They don't settle down again until November. -- Norman Tebbit
If you look at the public opinion polls even, support for all the issues, people who self-identify as feminists are as least as many as those who self-identify as Republicans. -- Gloria Steinem
I'm often amazed at the way politicians, who spend hours poring over opinion poll results in a desperate attempt to discover what the public thinks, are certain they know precisely what God's views are on everything. -- Simon Hoggart
Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large. -- Plato
Judging by opinion polls, Israel has bigger problems than me. It is among the most hated countries on the planet. It should stop acting like a lunatic state. Once it carries on like a normal country, I will be happily redirect my energies elsewhere. -- Norman Finkelstein
By more than two to one Americans do not consider what Kevorkian did, injecting a terminally ill patient with legal drugs at the patient's request, to be the same as murder. You may want to note that laws are not supposed to be enforced on the basis of public opinion polls. -- Dan Rather
The liberated man is not the one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth, or his transparency; he is the man who changes spaces, who circulates, who changes sex, clothes, and habits according to fashion, rather than morality, and who changes opinions not as his conscience dictates but in response to opinion polls. -- Jean Baudrillard
I think it's offensive to equate evangelical Christians, Catholics, others that view marriage as between a man and a woman, as being racist. We're not racist. We love our fellow man, we think we're all equal under God's eyes, we don't believe we should change the definition of marriage simply because of opinion polls or because of a court that quite frankly isn't looking at the constitution. -- Bobby Jindal
There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress. -- Gloria Steinem
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. -- Jim Bolger
There's an opportunity for the corner drugstore to play a much greater role. Pharmacists have been extremely well respected - they're one of the top two or three most-trusted professionals in opinion polls year after year. -- Gregory Wasson
Polls are inaccurate in my opinion, based upon anecdotal evidence, based upon people that I know. -- Herman Cain
I think you can not be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls. -- Dick Cheney
I read these polls because civil-liberties organizations tell me I need to be aware of public opinion. -- Edward Snowden
Nobody looks at opinion polls with more attention than politicians, but of course you've got to remember that a single poll is a snapshot in time. -- Malcolm Turnbull
There are a lot of polls that show that actually Americans have a pretty high opinion of teachers, that Americans think teachers are just about as prestigious as doctors. -- Dana Goldstein
Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty and the end of welfare and affirmative action. -- Ron Paul

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