Citas electorales

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

  Mary Frances Berry

  Taken, Parks, Human Rights

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• 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

  Children, Garden, Public Opinion

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• Según recientes sondeos de opinión, una gran mayoría de iraquíes cree que el ejército estadounidense no tiene intención de abandonar Irak, y que se quedaría aunque el gobierno iraquí le pidiera que se fuera.

  John Conyers

  Military, Believe, Government

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• Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Running, Romance, Leader

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• Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

  Robert Orben

  Inspirational, Political, Feelings

  Robert Orben (2012). “Joke Tellers Handbook”, p.90, Doubleday

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• A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.

  Al Gore

  Funny, People, Political

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• Siempre pierdo las elecciones en las encuestas, y siempre las gano el día de las elecciones.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Winning, Election, I Always Win

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• Creo que la gente - que aboga por dar un paso atrás y leer esas encuestas de opinión pública en la portada de los periódicos de todo este país diciendo público apoya la restauración en la restauración de los Everglades, la protección de los parques y la creación de monumentos.

  Bruce Babbitt

  País, Pensamiento, Gente

  Entrevista con Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. 5 de enero de 2001.

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• Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

  Dan Rather

  Funny, Government, Public Opinion

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• 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

  Party, Phones, Focus

  Hansard (parlamentary debates transcript), January 29, 2003.

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• Si estás harto de la política del cinismo y las encuestas y los principios, ven y únete a esta campaña.

  George W. Bush

  Divertido, Ingenioso, Cansado

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• No me fío de las encuestas desde que leí que el 62% de las mujeres tenían aventuras durante la hora de comer. Nunca en mi vida he conocido a una mujer que renunciara a almorzar por sexo.

  Erma Bombeck

  Confianza, Sexo, Renunciar

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• Don't worry about polls, but if you do, don't admit it.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Funny, Worry, Political

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• The American people, Neil, are sick and tired of excuses. They are sick and tired of the blame game. And they're sick and tired of the deception coming from this president and this administration. This is why I believe that I am doing so well in the polls.

  Herman Cain

  Believe, Tired, Games

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• He descubierto la estrategia política de Karl Rove: hacer que la gasolina sea tan cara que ningún demócrata pueda permitirse ir a votar.

  John F. Kerry

  Divertido, Política, Estrategia

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• 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

  Funny, Fashion, Sex

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• Me pregunto hasta dónde habría llegado Moisés si hubiera hecho una encuesta en Egipto. ¿Qué habría predicado Jesucristo si hubiera hecho una encuesta en Israel? ¿Hasta dónde habría llegado la Reforma si Martin Luther hubiera hecho una encuesta?

  Harry S. Truman

  Inspiración, Cambio, Liderazgo

  "Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman".

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• The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls - the
  worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Strong, Morning

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.718, Modern Library

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• La llamada ciencia de las encuestas no es ciencia, sino nigromancia. La gente es impredecible por naturaleza, y aunque se pueda tomar el pulso a una nación, no se puede estar seguro de que la nación no acabe de subir un tramo de escaleras.

  E. B. White

  Running, People, Politics

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.165, Cornell University Press

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• 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 favourably.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Fiesta, Pensamiento, Gente

  "Michelle, top woman in a macho world". Interview with Diane Dixon, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2006.

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• You see, Mr. President - real leaders don't follow polls. Real leaders change polls.

  Chris Christie

  Real, Leader, President

  Discurso en la Convención Nacional Republicana, www.foxnews.com. 28 de agosto de 2012.

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• I don't read polls to decide what I'm going to do.

  John Kasich

  Fuente: www.businessinsider.com

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• The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you...

  Rush Limbaugh

  Depressing, Public Opinion, Tools

  "'Skewed' Polls, ACORN, And Right-Wing Delusion" by Eric Boehlert, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 28, 2012.

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

  Ann Coulter

  Thinking, People, Tests

  Commentary on Hannity & Colmes, Fox News, August 17, 1997.

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• La mayor amenaza para la confianza pública en las elecciones en este caso es la perspectiva de aplicar una ley deliberadamente discriminatoria, que probablemente impone un impuesto electoral inconstitucional y corre el riesgo de negar el derecho al voto a cientos de miles de votantes.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Derecho, Riesgo, Electores

  "El Tribunal Supremo permite por ahora la ley de identificación de votantes de Texas", por Jason Hanna, Michael Pearson, www.cnn.com. 19 de octubre de 2014.

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