Jim Bolger quotes
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“Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy.”
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“I mean you really can target your answers to get the instant response and I think that is a very manipulative type of polling. I really have no time for that worm at all.”
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“I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense.”
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“And if you're getting a poll coming out month after month saying something and then all of a sudden does an enormous swing in one direction - you are dealing with a more volatile electorate than most people believe they have.”
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“I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah... a parliamentary democracy, but I've always had an instinct to say there should be a fixed term.”
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“So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.”
-- Jim Bolger
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“The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.”
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Source : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.
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Source : Tikkun magazine, July-August 1989.
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