Census Quote by Patrick McHenry

It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.

— Patrick McHenry

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

I have always found it difficult to wrap my head around population policies.

— Abhijit Banerjee

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

I thought the whole idea of being a conservative was to keep the government from messing around in people's lives. And yet they say…

— Edward Zigler

Conservatives were brought up to hate deficits and justifiably so. We've long thought there are two things in Washington that are unbalanced - the…

— Ronald Reagan

Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?

— Matt Lauer

It's not easy cutting welfare bills. It's not easy cutting the deficit.

— George Osborne

We Conservatives believe not in big, interventionist, centralized government. But in small and limited government, government as close to the people as possible.

— Maxime Bernier

America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbornly rejected math, facts, and polls to their electoral peril.…

— Christine Pelosi

There are 100 different doors to come into the conservative movement. You can disagree with 99 of them, as long as you agree on…

— Grover Norquist

Making government more efficient and more effective need not be a partisan issue.

— Martin O'Malley