Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.
Interpretation
Polling is a tool for understanding public opinion and leaders should consider it seriously.
In this quote, George Gallup emphasizes the significance of polling in gauging public opinion. He argues that when leaders take poll results into account, they are acknowledging the perspectives of the populace they serve, and to dismiss this as irrelevant undermines the democratic process.
In practice
In a speech discussing the importance of democracy, one might say, 'As George Gallup noted, polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion.'
This was the way I was brought up to think of politics, that politics was to do with ethics, it was to do with responsibility, it was to do with service, so I think I was conditioned to think like that, and I'm too old to change now.
My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.
When you vote, vote for those who are not warmongers, and vote for those who respect human rights. When you see a president who doesn't respect human rights, don't vote for that person.
That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today.
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