There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress.
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There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
NOAM CHOMSKY Maybe Gloria Steinem can tell the difference between pornography and erotica at a single glance. I c...
JOANNA RUSS I don't know how much the pope and Gloria Steinem really agreed on.
TOM RODGERS I respect Gloria Steinem enormously. But I never wanted to be in any kind of movement - and if you...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE I respect Gloria Steinem enormously. But I never wanted to be in any kind of movement - and if you...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference...
PHIL MCGRAW Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.
DAN RATHER It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes.
NICOLA STURGEON Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how...
J. B. PRIESTLEY There's a big gap between 'Click the link to send an e-mail to your congressman' and ...
BILLY PARISH A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
IRINA DUNN I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say 'feminist' now, ther...
MEGYN KELLY Yes, speed is a concern for domestic public opinion polls and Iraqi public opinion, ... But they are...
LARRY DIAMOND Most Scots might be able to identify six vegetables - but only two MSPs. There are parts of Scotland...
RORY BREMNER Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actio...
HENRY KISSINGER It pains me to see the gap that exists in the public's consciousness - religious and secular - b...
REUVEN RIVLIN There is a big gap between the cost of roaming and the charges levied.
KIP MEEK I have never had an interest in opinion polls. They are merely an indicator, that's all.
ENDA KENNY The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
JOE KLAAS It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.
ARLEN SPECTER One vote. That's a big weapon you have there, Mister. In 1948, just one additional vote in each ...
PAUL HARVEY There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Was...
BILL GATES The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my...
CAMILLE PAGLIA There's definitely a huge gap between the elite and public perceptions on immigration.
MARK KRIKORIAN We saw what happened in Jimmy Carter's administration. President Carter was a good man with the ...
JIM HUNT We've had a leadership vacuum for four years in Washington, D.C., that has basically been blown abou...
STEVE LARGENT Polls are inaccurate in my opinion, based upon anecdotal evidence, based upon people that I know.
HERMAN CAIN There is often little to distinguish what Beijing wants from what Canada's foreign affairs manda...
TERRY GLAVIN That's the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super B...
JOHN MADDEN There is really no gap between generations, just a gap in one's ability to learn from another.
DEBORAH SIMPSON There's an opportunity for the corner drugstore to play a much greater role. Pharmacists have be...
GREGORY WASSON You can drive yourself crazy and tie yourself in knots trying to anticipate what someone's going...
KEVIN FEIGE For me, there's a big difference between having a baby in your 20s and having a baby in your 40s...
JANE KACZMAREK One of my big beliefs about Washington is that we highly overstate the power of individuals and high...
EZRA KLEIN One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, f...
GEORGE WASHINGTON I learned there's a big difference between juniors and the pros.
MARIA SHARAPOVA These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, w...
JACQUES DELORS Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday...
FRED UPTON The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
HENRY KISSINGER The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the...
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the...
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR If Virginia Tech ends up number one in all six computer polls, like Texas is now, and the Longhorns ...
JERRY PALM The total collapse of the public opinion polls shows that this country is in good health. A country ...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE Slave narratives had their greatest influence on public opinion and on literature in the U.S. betwee...
DARRYL PINCKNEY Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign d...
BILL MCKIBBEN The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mi...
NADINE GORDIMER My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy a...
CAMILLE PAGLIA The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.
KATHLEEN TURNER I've learned the importance of changing people's minds at the grassroots level so that whoev...
AL GORE There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There...
MARTIN FREEMAN The conflict between secular Zionism and the settler movement did not appear overnight following Isr...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS There's a big difference between France and the U.S. In the U.S., immigrants must work to live. ...
MARINE LE PEN It would make an enormous difference. It's a much higher hurdle to cross if everyone knows who you a...
CHELLIE PINGREE There are certainly delays in this year's agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let'...
ANTONIS SAMARAS I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.
DAN PFEIFFER When I came to Congress, I campaigned for fiscal responsibility. And the earmarking problem and cris...
CHUCK FLEISCHMANN I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the ...
BRUCE BABBITT There is always a gap between intention and action..
PAULO COELHO Seeing as there's such a narrow gap between the two we demand that a scrupulous verification of the ...
PAOLO BONAIUTI Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office befo...
HERMAN CAIN REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus...
AMBROSE BIERCE This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based ...
STEPHEN HARPER Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington ...
SARAH PALIN The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not ...
RUSH LIMBAUGH Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
BARRY WHITE Public opinion polls have shown that people support the mayor taking an aggressive role downtown and...
KATHRYN WYLDE There is a lot that we already know how to do. Unfortunately, there's a big gap between what we know...
LEE SCHWAMM Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's birthday. It was celebrated as a public holiday on...
NIGEL HAMILTON The institution of the family has very few friends in Washington. There are lobbyists in Washington ...
JAMES DOBSON Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice betwe...
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER There's a lot of information that has been in peoples' heads and hasn't gotten onto the ...
ADAM D'ANGELO In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
ZAC BROWN There is a direct connection between care that people get here in Wheaton and the decisions made in ...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH The reality is that not only were we massively hit in 2008 when the bubble burst, and then we realiz...
EDGAR RAMIREZ You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul...
NAWAL EL SAADAWI Some day, the public might actually revolt against the undemocratic system of seniority that allows ...
CHUCK TODD That day I realized that at least for the time being, I was becoming Christian’s somebody.
A...
MELYSSA WINCHESTER She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my p...
MICHELLE BACHELET In Washington, we've seen enough tax hikes, government takeovers, bailouts, and other big govern...
KEVIN MCCARTHY I am confident of the Congress party winning the polls.
TARUN GOGOI In Washington, politicians worry about their 'base.' About polls. About ideology. About rais...
MIKE BARNICLE I would urge patrons to go to the polls and vote, ... I think it's important to participate in this ...
TONY WOOD To me, it's not necessarily about whom you vote for, it's more about the fact that you go ou...
ROBERT GRIFFIN III I have been an organizer and then activist and a legislator, all of that. But then there's this ...
MAXINE WATERS It's almost seems as though there's a battle going on between the public and all the fast-fo...
REGIS PHILBIN If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and wha...
RAMSEY CLARK The aphorist writes in the gap between poetry and philosophy.
MARTY RUBIN Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this co...
CHARLES EVANS HUGHES Until there are tangible metrics for quantifying the real value of a token's utility, the gap be...
WILLIAM MOUGAYAR About 90 percent of what's out there in cyberspace is hearsay - or lies - and opinion, often mis...
DAVID TANG You tend to think that there is a big gap between F1 and everything else. F1 is where all the fantas...
JEAN ALESI There's a sense we've lost control of the borders. States are caught in the crossfire between Congre...
ANN MORSE The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE Presidents who are low in the polls have a hard time getting Congress to go along with them. He has ...
CHARLES FRANKLIN This party will not take its position based o-n public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based...
STEPHEN HARPER
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GLORIA STEINEM The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors...
GLORIA STEINEM The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
GLORIA STEINEM Girls actually need superheroes much more than boys.
GLORIA STEINEM If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on...
GLORIA STEINEM Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and come...
GLORIA STEINEM Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individu...
GLORIA STEINEM Rich People plan for three generations
Poor people plan for Saturday night
GLORIA STEINEM Laughter is a rescue. p.204
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