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 …

- Jim Bolger

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 s…

- Jim Bolger

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 …

- Jim Bolger

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…

- Jim Bolger

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 parliamenta…

- Jim Bolger

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 in…

- Jim Bolger