Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A recent poll shows that a majority of blacks, whites, Asians and Hispanics do not think the Census should be classifying people… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had… — Jeff Miller Copy Share Image
I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames.… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I started sharpening pencils at the census and how that was a difficult time in my life because my marriage was ending… — David Rees Copy Share Image
The only census of the senses, so far as I am aware, that ever before made them more than five, was the… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down. [Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est;… — Ovid Copy Share Image
The long view of the Census bureau allows some changes that are taken for granted to be studied in more detail. Everyone… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
“According to the U.S. Census Bureau, a family is defined as two or more people living together who are related by birth,… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and… — Darrell Huff Copy Share Image
The actual assertion that the Census Bureau could behave in such a way as to tilt things one way or the other… — Kenneth Prewitt Copy Share Image
Liberals believe that crime is inextricably linked with poverty. In reality, most poor people never resort to crime, and some wealthy people… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Luke [the gospel writer] screws up his dating by tactlessly mentioning events that historians are capable of independently checking. There was indeed… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more… — Elijah Cummings Copy Share Image
Genealogy is among the fastest-growing leisure pursuits in the U.K. Indeed, the urge to uncover the truth about our ancestors has proved… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution… — Patrick McHenry Copy Share Image
“Hold it right there. You men from the bank?" "You Wash's boy?" "Yessir and Daddy told me I'm to shoot whoever's from… — Ethan Coen Joel Coen Copy Share Image
I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket. — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
An accurate census is critical to our democracy and to our economy. It underpins fair representation in government and allows us to… — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
In the welter of statistics about selected ethnic origins (singular or multiple) in the last census, one finding was often overlooked. Of… — Charlotte Gray Copy Share Image
Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts--census tracts, special purpose bond-issue… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I therefore have to use The Force. And weirdly, this doesn't work very well. I don't understand why, because on the last… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
The U.S. Census Bureau reports that American homes are 650 square feet larger today than they were in 1980. Unfortunately, so are… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
You and I are forever at the mercy of the census-taker and the census-maker. That impertinent fellow who goes from house to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Look at the Bethlehem birth. A king ordered a census. Joseph was forced to travel. Mary, as round as a ladybug, bounced… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I'd love to thwart the Census form, but I want a constitutional basis for doing it - and here's the tricky thing.… — Mark Davis Copy Share Image
The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which should accomplish a two-fold object. It should serve the country by making… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
I carry in my datebook a piece of paper that my mother copied out for me, from the 1840 Census. Hardy Callaway… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
The first presidential veto, by George Washington, was a veto of Alexander Hamilton's formula for apportioning the House, and the one that… — Kenneth Prewitt Copy Share Image
America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbornly rejected math, facts, and polls to their… — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
The United States census records from 1850 to 1940, and all available Church records, uniformly show a preponderance of males in Utha,… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away. Most of this “something” cannot be seen or… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
See what's inside a drop of water. The whole seed of the universe. Come, come. See what's inside a drop of blood.… — Manuel Rivas Copy Share Image