Jim Bolger quotes

Jim Bolger quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“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.”
-- Jim Bolger

#Issues Quotes #Support Quotes #Democracy Quotes
“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.”
-- Jim Bolger

#Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Target Quotes
“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.”
-- Jim Bolger

#Thinking Quotes #Views Quotes #People Quotes
“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.”
-- Jim Bolger

#Believe Quotes #One Direction Quotes #Swings Quotes
“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.”
-- Jim Bolger

#Government Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Election Quotes
“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

#Country Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Unusual Quotes

You may also like:

Ban Ki-moon
Diplomat
David Lange
Former Prime Minister of New Zealand
Doug Graham
New Zealand Politician
Helen Clark
Former Prime Minister of New Zealand
Jenny Shipley
Former Prime Minister of New Zealand
John Key
Prime Minister of New Zealand
Peter Dunne
New Zealand Politician
Robert Muldoon
Former Prime Minister of New Zealand
Winston Peters
Former Member of the New Zealand Parliament