"I do not run polls to tell me what to think."

At least that's what their polls tell them.

These days, no politicians dared moved half an inch past what their polls told them.

Most Americans, the polls tell us, feel truly represented by neither side.

The polls have told us little, and the pundits even less.

He's the kind of fellow who doesn't require a focus group or a poll to tell him what to think.

So the polls tell us, and so the political climate indicates.

"It could well be that in an election this close, or so the polls tell us, anything can make a difference," he said.

But they are not masters of the business cycle, either - although that is what most voters expect them to be, the polls tell us.

I don't take polls to tell me what to think.