“A census taker once tried to test me. I let my front garden eat him.” — Jonathan L. Howard Copy Share Image
Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas. — Julie Bishop Copy Share Image
“Are you going to count me on the census form?” “Sure. Ghost squatter, quantity of one. Sex male, race Caucasian, age dead.… — Chessela Helm 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
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 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
“According to 2008/09 census there were 61,080,000 dogs in the United States. Many homeless or mistreated. There are more pet dogs than… — Alexander Fontana Copy Share Image
I live by statistics, so if look at U.S. Census statistics regarding families making over $100,000 dollars a year, 93% of them… — David L. Cohen 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
For Indigenous Australians, equal rights and citizenship have not always translated into full participation in Australian society. All Indigenous Australians have only… — Jackie Huggins 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
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
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
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 number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,'… — Aaron Sorkin 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
I grew up in Harlem, a block away from what was then the most crowded block in New York City, according to… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened. — Pete du Pont Copy Share Image
People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are. — Max Barry Copy Share Image
The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why. — Caroline Knapp 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
