All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians‘ warning that correlation is not causation.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there’s such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

I can analyze people’s intentions. Immediately. That’s just a warning. To everyone.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

If you ever see The Rock working out in the gym, don’t think you can just go up and disturb his workout and expect him to take a picture. He’s there to work, so kindly just pass the silverback on by or he’ll rip your face off.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

We are the people our parents warned us about.

I’m doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals‘ imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.

I’m not resigned, but I’m realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it’s a certainty you’ll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it’s an awful process.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.

When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.

‚Fahrenheit 451‘ postulates a lot of things I didn’t want to have happen.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove – disapprove of their point of view.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

The biggest thing is just routine. I think that’s the biggest correlation between golfers and basketball players.

Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning.

Beware the hobby that eats.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France – I don’t know about England – that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime.

Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

‚Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age‘ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.

I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn’t that unbelievable? That’s 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.

When a politician uses the word ‚folks,‘ we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook. One such program was this program called Match. People could enter the different courses that they were taking, and see what other courses would be correlated with the courses they are taking.

You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

The length of a man’s outspread arms is equal to his height.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head – big darkness, soon come – but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.