CALVIN: Your polls are slipping Dad. Better get with it.
CALVIN’S DAD: Calvin, being your dad is not an elected position. I don’t have to respond to polls.
CALVIN: Not elected? You mean you can govern with dictatorial impunity?
CALVIN’S DAD: Exactly.
CALVIN: In short, open revolt and exile is the only hope for change?
CALVIN’S DAD: I don’t like the direction this conversation is taking.
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CALVIN: Bad news, Dad. Your polls are way down.
CALVIN’S DAD: My polls?
CALVIN: You rate especially low among tigers and six-year-old white males.
Polls are like perfume — nice to smell, dangerous to swallow.
Shimon Peres (1923–2016) Polish-Israeli politician, statesman
In International Herald Tribune (25-26 Jan 2003)
It is said public opinion will not bear it. Really? Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarce any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science, or manners, which it will not bear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Journal (1827)
Also in "Success," Society and Solitude (1870).
About one-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
Robert Francis Kennedy (1925–1968) American politician
Speech, University of Pennsylvania (6 May 1964)
