Poll quotes

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 Horace Gallup
  NBC news,1 Dec.

Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, but talked like poor Poll.

- David Garrick
  Of Oliver Goldsmith.'Impromptu Epitaph'.