Political Quotes

“My colleagues, a Republican Jihad? What kind of language is that? What kind of insinuation is that? But I tell my colleagues something. If we want to take a diversion from what this country has done for over 200 years, and that is to count the men and women and children in this country one by one, in a very methodical way, and say, instead of doing that, we are going to guess how many people are in this country, we are going to make some assumptions, and we are going to put some equations in place, and then we are going to put numbers in that equation, and if that equation does not meet the assumptions that we want, then we are going to do a statistical adjustment to make sure that the numbers that did not come out the way we want will meet the assumptions we put in the first place. My colleagues, I think that this Congress has a responsibility first of all to itself, secondly to the Constitution, third to the taxpayers of this country that when we do the census, we do it right.”