"If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership."
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"There are a bunch of people who are never going to be for Trump. Most Democrats, polls show, will never be for Trump."
"You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected."
"The poll that matters is the one that happens on Election Day."
"What the polls don't tell you is, though other polls do, is that if you do a study of CEOs, top executives in corporations, they're liberal."
"The polls are inaccurate in my opinion, based upon anecdotal evidence, based upon people that I know."