#poll

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. ↗

— Mary Frances Berry

#bus #down #had #montgomery #parks

While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I've seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#coalition #exactly #fact #free #freed

Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated. ↗

— John Bright

#ballot #called #care #constitutional #decide

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

— Ann Coulter

#i think #literacy #people #poll #should

It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel. ↗

— Malcolm Cowley

#been #chapel #copy #equivalent #jackson

The only poll obviously that matters is the last one, the one that's counted after all the votes are cast. ↗

— Mario Diaz-Balart

#cast #counted #last #matters #obviously

That area environmentally is a waste. You can't do anything. I don't care if the Sierra Club goes out there. It is fully polluted! You're not only going to work to clean up the environment, but also you will put people to work. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#anything #area #care #clean #clean up

I think any good government will target on the finishing date, that is, the polling day and make sure that their strategy is strong and in place to get them successfully re-elected. ↗

— Alexander Downer

#date #day #finishing #get #good

On February 7, 2.2 million Haitians went to the polls and exercised their constitutional right to select a leader. They went by foot, by tap tap and other forms of transportation, traveling hours and standing in line for almost a day to get to their polling places. ↗

— Mark Foley

#constitutional #constitutional right #day #exercised #february

Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense. ↗

— George Gallup

#attention #effect #instrument #interpretation #leader