CALVIN: Here’s the latest poll on your performance as Dad. Your approval rating is pretty low, I’m afraid.
CALVIN’S DAD: That’s because there’s not necessarily any connection between what’s good and what’s popular. I do what’s right, not what gets approval.
CALVIN: You’ll never keep the job with that attitude.
CALVIN’S DAD: If someone else offers to do it, let me know.
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Public opinion polls are useful if a politician uses them only to learn approximately what the people are thinking, so that he can talk to them more intelligently. The politician who sways with the polls is not worth his pay. And I believe the people eventually catch up with the man who merely tells them what he thinks they want to hear.
Richard M. Nixon (1913–1994) American politician, writer, US President (1967–74)
Six Crises, ch. 3 (1962)
