A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times.

- Andrew Denton

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.

- Jeb Bush

I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for.

- Jonathan Dimbleby

Of course, it is always nice to poll well, but if you don't get representatives elected, then what is the point?

- Marta Andreasen

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

- Nate Silver

A flat-rate poll tax would be politically unsustainable; even with a rebate scheme, the package would have an unacceptable impact on certain types of household.

- Nigel Lawson

Obama's very unpopular. I don't need a poll to tell me that.

- Pete Gallego

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

- Rush Limbaugh

Every year since 1990, the Gallup poll has asked Americans to assess all the presidents since John F. Kennedy. And every year, Kennedy comes out on top.

- Robert Dallek

Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.

- Sally Quinn

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

- Warren Buffett