Census Quotes

Census Quote of the day

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

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.

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.

The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.

You can't choose between right and wrong by taking a census.

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

At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas.

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.

We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category.

The U.S. Census Bureau reports that American homes are 650 square feet larger today than they were in 1980. Unfortunately, so are most Americans.

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.]

Right and wrong are not the product of census.

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.

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.

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

I started sharpening pencils at the census and how that was a difficult time in my life because my marriage was ending and I had quit cartooning and I didn't know what to do with myself.

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.