John Sarbanes actually said...

"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."

"This isn't about political power grabs. This is about doing what makes common sense and what our Constitution calls upon us to do every 10 years."

"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."

"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."