Stephen Harper Quotes

All policies should be guided by science, not just whose voice is the loudest.

The icons of the past relied on political instinct. Now Presidents can use scientific polls and focus groups.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

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.

What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.

I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

This is not going to be decided by public opinion polls. It is a national security issue.

When politicians try to govern by raising a wet finger to the wind or on the basis of public opinion polling, the public gets to think that all leaders are interchangeable.

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll…

The minister should not press his personal views unduly about what is not essential.

I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.

Go with the science!.

I'm going to make up my own mind as to what I think is in the best interest of our country and Florida.

The BJP decides its own policies.

I don't make decisions with my heart, I use my brain to think things through.

President Trump, when challenged on facts, says that many people feel the way he does. But feelings should not take the place of reason in matters of public policy.

No disrespect, but I don't make decisions based on opinions.

You must build public policies on reason, on facts.

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making.

I believe in evidence-based decision making. I want to know what the facts are.

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.