03/27/2012
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"You know, fundamentally, you can't run a country if you don't know how many people are in your country, and that is the purpose of the census, plain and simple."
"This is a patriotic exercise that we engage in every 10 years to know who is in our country, how many people, so we know how to provide services and resources and function as a country."
"I think you're describing how this pandemic may be completely changing up the way vaccines are produced and approved and tested and so forth, for life after the pandemic."
"You don't have to sacrifice safety to achieve the speed that you've undertaken right now."