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

Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.

I'd love to thwart the Census form, but I want a constitutional basis for doing it - and here's the tricky thing. I think even constitutional purists would tell you that just because something isn't in the Constitution does not mean the government cannot do it.

I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?

Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution specifically asks of U.S. citizens and boycotting will just help liberals expand government even further.

The census should not be political.

We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.

It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.

Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.