Civil rights Quote by Alex Wagner

An accurate census is critical to our democracy and to our economy. It underpins fair representation in government and allows us to ensure that…

— Alex Padilla

Voters should know what their representative is doing, what votes he casts, and who he pays, so my office will make this data readily…

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

If I was in government and running government, I think I would use the government data, because I wouldn't know where else to look,…

— Steve Ballmer

Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.

— Rob Lowe

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing…

— Tom G. Palmer

Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.

— Hans Rosling

The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and…

— Josiah Stamp

A lot of our sources for income-inequality measures come from household surveys in which people report how much they earned in the last year,…

— Angus Deaton

It is entirely reasonable to want to know how many citizens and non-citizens there are in the United States.

— William Barr

The only thing they [government] want is better data. But data doesn't tell people someone is well educated. It's a vicious circle. There is…

— Deborah Meier

Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.

— Mike Pence

“We have the money. We've just made choices about how to spend it. Over the years, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have…

— Matthew Desmond