Quotes About Perception

Yes, I have found many people who voted for Brexit and believe it will answer their problems. But they mostly realise that Europe isn't the problem, however much the E.U. could be improved.

One lesson is that if you want to predict voter turnout, you should ask whether at least one candidate is attracting high levels of enthusiasm - not whether the stakes are high, or even perceived to be high. That fits the historical pattern.

To me, it's a different kind of voter suppression to constantly try to make people feel like the election is over before it's even begun.

Even though voters overwhelmingly dislike negative ads, they do influence voters' opinions about a candidate.

Voters memories will fade some.

I think you have to be careful. You have to know exactly what is going to resonate with voters. And you can't get ahead of that. You have to be very careful with your approach.

If you want to understand why a minority of American voters are unplugged from the fact-based news that the rest of the country depends on, just imagine being told multiple times a day that real news is a hoax.

While only about half of the voters feel they know very much about Reagan or what he stands for, the Republicans who do have a very positive perception of him.

Perhaps the reason Trump voters are so frequently the subject of caricature is that they so frequently conform to type.

Republicans would have preferred the court overturn the health care bill, an act that would have underscored Obama's biggest liability - the perception among voters, including those who like and trust him, that he has been ineffective.

I don't think I can sell to our voters in our district that there's nothing to cut in the federal budget. Nobody, I think, sees that or would agree with that.

I was always a little skeptical of how voters would react to my name.

Voters have figured out Republicans want to save Medicare for the long term, and they know that those who say everything's just fine with it aren't leveling with them.

It's hard to be a national punch line unless lots of voters have soured on you.

The Democratic Party tends to have this hypereducated ruling-class mentality, and we need to realize that's not making us connect with a lot of voters.

You know, because of my military background, I talk to voters who for the first two minutes think I'm a Republican.

Unfortunately, there is a tendency among political elites to distrust the opinions of ordinary people. They are perceived to base their views on dark instincts and unjustified fears, rather than on rational choices. European voters, however, are highly educated, and it is ridiculous to suppose they can be easily fooled or manipulated.

Voters are smarter than Republicans think they are.

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

I don't think I'll ever get used to seeing my face next to Jake Gyllenhaal's.

There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I don't seek them out, but people tend to think of me for that particular archetype, or whatever you want to call it, and I don't mind it. I think there is a strength to it.

If women speak their mind, then they are termed as trouble makers or attention seekers.

I'm not exactly the endorsement people are seeking.

People seem to know more about me than I do.