America Quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower

Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.

— Jasper Fforde

I think that having good data, good statistics-and the United States generally has better macroeconomic statistics than most countries-and having good economists to interpret…

— Ben Bernanke

We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores they chalk…

— Kenneth Keniston

I guess it's a good thing to do, but people go for 1,000 yards every year, so it's not really a big thing.

— Amari Cooper

It's good for the economy. It's good for America.

— Barack Obama

Some yards is better than none yards?

— John Madden

It's important to underscore that it is not mediocre test scores that have caused the major problems in the U.S. It has been unnecessary…

— Howard Gardner

Things have their own pace, and if we work with that pace and anticipate the issues correctly, we can have good results.

— Arundhati Bhattacharya

The more successful you become, the longer the yardstick people use to measure you by.

— Tom Landry

The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.

— John Tukey

What gets measured gets improved.

— Anonymous

The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which should accomplish a two-fold object. It should serve the country by making a full…

— James A. Garfield