Census Quotes

• 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
  • Live
  • Money
  • Hope

• 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
  • Littles
  • Bigs
  • Beans

• 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
  • People
  • Black
  • Majority

• 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
  • Government
  • Reason
  • Duty

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

  

  Tom G. Palmer
  • Government
  • Form
  • Mechanism

• 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
  • Firsts
  • Names
  • Slave