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There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.

Congress as a whole is less popular than it's been since polling was invented.

It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes.

America is inundated with polls. We need a term for being swamped with polls. I would say 'poll-arized,' but that's already in use to describe our political divisions.

I'm a believer in the polls, by the way. Rarely do you see a poll that's very far off.

American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.

Polling only works in a country without a depressed, frightened populace. Where the public trusts authorities enough to tell them the truth without fear of retribution.

I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense.

I have never had an interest in opinion polls. They are merely an indicator, that's all.