Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chang-Rae Lee

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.

Orlando Rodriguez

Census 2000 did not do a good job with group quarters, but they have a major impact, particularly in small towns.

Heather Boushey

Given that the Census doesn't seem to have a clear plan, and given that it's taken about seven years to develop a new survey historically, I don't see that it will take only two years to develop something better than we have now.

Estelle Morris

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.

Kenneth Prewitt

It is ... a complicated, challenging task. But the alternative is to just ignore them -- is to say, 'Well, even though we didn't count them and we know they are part of the United States, since we don't know where to put them, we'll just sort of leave them off the census rolls. That strikes us as a social injustice.

John Laird

Given what happened to the Central Coast, it's hard to support the current system, but since the last census 3.6 million people have been added. And to turn over the most diverse state in the union to a panel of retired judges, which is a very undiverse group ... I'd support an independent commission, or an independent commission with legislative review, or some other kind of hybrid.

David Deaton

We've had as many as 69 (patients) or as little as 50. The census will fluctuate, just depending on what the needs are at the time.

John Edwards

This is an especially valuable survey, because it drills down into the benefits, costs, challenges and unexpected consequences experienced by managers; much more than the census type research of employees produced to date.

Jay Johnson

Actually, the census will confirm what the Planning Department has been projecting.

Barbara Block

Sharks are declining globally, yet the movements and habitats of most species are unknown,

Michael Capellas

We are declining in science ... in the 5th and 6th grades. Young ladies are not entering math and science -- and when they do, they go to medicine.

Michael Capellas

We are declining in science ... in the 5th and 6th grades,

David Hanson

We still have too many students 12 to 17 who are drinking excessively but we don't have an epidemic. We have a declining problem. That's the fact of it.

Tim Walberg

During Governor Jennifer Granholm's administration, Michigan has experienced job losses, declining personal incomes, diminishing home values, and the highest unemployment rate in the nation.

John Donne

Where can we find two better hemispheres/ Without sharp North, without declining West?

Rosanne Cahn

Though there are some prices that are declining, in fact deflation means most prices are declining and there's very little evidence that is happening.

Catherine Rossi

We'd like to know why prices are not declining in line with the national average.

Larry Wachtel

On Friday, we had a ratio of 12 to 1 of losers to winners. That's the worst performance since 1997. We also had over 3,000 declining issues. This shows real weakness.

David Price

Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.

David R. Brower

You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.

John Williamson

The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant. You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school.

John Williamson

The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant, ... You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school.

Bill McKibben

I've always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward.

Kelly Wood

The population is healthy, but it's not like we've got a lot of them.

Charlie Roberts

The population is growing, the unemployment rate is dropping. It's a combination of those two factors.

Brian Behlendorf

There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.

Edward Zwick

There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.

Dick Cavett

I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.

Ed Sullivan

I wouldn't have Elvis Presley on my show at any time.

Monica Raymund

Lie to Me' is one of the smartest shows on TV. We have something different, unique and new to say to the audience that they're not going to get from any other show.

Stephen Urban

We don't have any documentation that shows ownership,

Demetri Martin

I never set out to do a sketch show.

Tracie Thoms

I like shows that are ensemble-based, that explore the humanity of every character.

Brian Henson

The show is probably 60 percent improvising and 40 percent not. So there's quite a bit of it that we do have prepared and that part of it, you have memorized and you've rehearsed and you're prepared, just like any show.

Callie Khouri

Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to me.

Earl Nightingale

What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.