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According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules. -- Jeff Miller
If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps. -- Michele Bachmann
A recent poll shows that a majority of blacks, whites, Asians and Hispanics do not think the Census should be classifying people as black, white, Asian and Hispanic. -- Thomas Sowell
At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas. -- Julie Bishop
Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census. -- Rob Lowe
The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket. -- Tom G. Palmer
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
Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep. -- Aaron Sorkin
The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does. -- Tom G. Palmer
I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you. -- Andy Rooney
The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves. -- Tom G. Palmer
I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number? -- Andy Rooney
Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible. -- Jonathan Sacks
A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti. -- Anthony Hopkins
People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are. -- Max Barry
Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why. -- Caroline Knapp
...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category. -- George Stigler
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A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling. -- Thomas Harris
I live by statistics, so if look at U.S. Census statistics regarding families making over $100,000 dollars a year, 93% of them have broadband internet at home. -- David L. Cohen
The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997. -- Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down. [Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores, Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet.] -- Ovid
We know the point of the 2010 Census is to count us, one by one, to tally every last resident, but the massive project of course has more prying, if limited, interests. -- Chang-Rae Lee
The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma. -- Elijah Cummings
The long view of the Census bureau allows some changes that are taken for granted to be studied in more detail. Everyone knows, for example, that people get married later than they used to. -- Bill Dedman
Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Census Bureau is thinking of creating a new category because so many kids don't know how to describe themselves using the existing categories. I call these kids the "Keanu Reeves Generation," after the actor who has a Hawaiian father and a Welsh mother. -- Richard Rodriguez
I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind. -- Jasper Fforde
I'd love to thwart the Census form, but I want a constitutional basis for doing it - and here's the tricky thing. I think even constitutional purists would tell you that just because something isn't in the Constitution does not mean the government cannot do it. -- Mark Davis
America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbornly rejected math, facts, and polls to their electoral peril. While Republicans tailored their platform by and for the pale stale and male, among us, Obama and Democrats are embracing America's diverse mosaic. -- Christine Pelosi
It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census. -- Patrick McHenry
There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997. -- Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution. -- K. V. Thomas
I grew up in Harlem, a block away from what was then the most crowded block in New York City, according to the 1950 census. Something like ten thousand people lived in one city block. -- Samuel R. Delany
Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution specifically asks of U.S. citizens and boycotting will just help liberals expand government even further. -- Patrick McHenry
Genealogy is among the fastest-growing leisure pursuits in the U.K. Indeed, the urge to uncover the truth about our ancestors has proved so compelling that, when the 1901 census first went online, the website crashed after a million people logged on within hours of its launch. -- Rory Bremner
You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames. But if you find your great-great-grandfather in 1870 and it says he's 50, that means he was born in 1820 and you're back to 1820 already. For an American that's pretty damned good, you know? -- Henry Louis Gates
One thing that we learned that we published on our blog post is that uniformly, men lie about their height by almost exactly two inches. So if you look at a plot of census bureau data on the distribution of men's heights in the U.S. and you plot men's heights on OKCupid, it is exactly shifted two inches to the left. -- Sam Yagan
Right and wrong are not the product of census. -- Terry Goodkind
You can't choose between right and wrong by taking a census. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Its often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census. -- Patrick McHenry
Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the stock Sydney jokes is of the census-taker who enquires: 'How many children have you, ma'am?' 'Two living and three in Melbourne.' -- Elspeth Huxley
Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I therefore have to use The Force. And weirdly, this doesn't work very well. I don't understand why, because on the last census, I put my religion down as Jedi Knight... -- Jeremy Clarkson
In the welter of statistics about selected ethnic origins (singular or multiple) in the last census, one finding was often overlooked. Of the 25,309,330 people living in Canada in 1986, only 69,065 declared themselves as Canadians. -- Charlotte Gray
Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts--census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway. -- Thomas Pynchon
Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts--census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway." -- Thomas Pynchon

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