Stephen Colbert Quotes

I don't pay a lot of attention to polls.

I don't put a lot of stock into polls.

I don't put too much stock in polls.

Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.

I've learned a long time ago not to take polls too seriously.

Opinion polls sponsored by newspapers were traditionally meant to bring to the fore the mood of the people objectively.

Public opinion should not be confused with popular sentiment. Popular sentiment is what people say to one another around their dinner tables. Popular opinion is what they say to callers from polling organizations.

A new poll showed that 66% of Americans think President Bush is doing a poor job handling the war in Iraq and the remaining 34% think that Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs to church.

If I believed in polls, I wouldn't get up in the morning.

I believe that the polling data that shows people give Obama 53% approval, I happen to think the polls are right. I just think people are not being honest with the pollster.

On March 8 a poll showed Hart 9 points ahead of Reagan. So perhaps 60 million Americans, 55 million of whom had not heard of Hart a month ago, have suddenly decided thay want him to be leader of the free world. The public mind is not just soft wax, it's runny.

Based on current surveys of public opinion in the United States, it turns out that the majority of Americans think I've done a pretty good job.

This is partly a function of approval ratings. People pay attention [to polls] and start saying, 'Lets take a more independent tack.' It is frankly self-interest, self-preservation.

I was always at about 70/30. About 70 percent of the people of my district appreciated me, and about 30 percent had quite another view of me.

To me, polls are like approval ratings for presidents are like an offensive line, right. And if an offensive line is weak, that means the defense is empowered and emboldened.

I don't care what the polls say. I don't.

I understand what's going on in people's minds, and I think the political leaders better be asking themselves 'why is it, that Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders and maybe even others are having the impact that they are having?'

Democrats lead in all the polls by at least ten points, except one.. Fox News. That is with a margin of error of plus or minus the facts.

I wouldn't place much stock in numbers. I don't believe that they reflect Putin's true popularity. Just think about how the pollsters proceed. They call people and they ask them questions on the street. In today's Russia, it takes a lot of courage to tell a stranger something critical about the head of the Kremlin. And yet more than 20 percent do so nonetheless.

You can never tell what the public will think! But when something goes well and is well-received, it's a great surprise!

The general assumption, which I think is a valid one, is that a lot of the major media were on their heels a little bit and prone to share the grief of the nation and to give Bush all the support it could.

I think the American public has gone from really almost white-hot anger in 2010 to an anxiety knowing their government needs to work.

Millions of Americans have already convicted Mrs. Clinton on many, many things. They will never vote for her.

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

I think people have made their minds up about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. They love them and hate them - love them or hate them.