Citizens Quote by Vladimir Putin

“When a country goes from a population of 3 million to a population of 300 million (to say nothing of the radical increase in…

— Thomas Piketty

The numbers that we can welcome to our own countries are relatively small in comparison to the millions that have been displaced, but it's…

— Ed Miliband

“No one can know, of course, accurate population figures from an era before there was a census, but many officials on the ground at…

— Adam Hochschild

...there is simply nothing so important to a people and its government as how many of them there are, whether their number is growing…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear.

— Emanuel Celler

Now 10 percent of this population [in Iceland] of 330,000 people were born elsewhere - Polish, North Africans, Europeans, Americans - people are coming…

— Sjon

“about 900 million people live in the countryside, where more than half the peasants survive on about US$0.73 per day. Incomes there have been…

— Gordon G. Chang

In Colombia today we have 16% of the population, which is a very small amount of the population owning 90% of the land and…

— Ingrid Betancourt

The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the…

— George Mikes

“1990, twenty-three million East Europeans lived on less than $2 per day;27 by 2001 that number had grown to ninety-three million, or one out…

— Siddharth Kara

No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an…

— Timothy Garton Ash

There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person was born…

— Dan Brown