Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.

Most Americans think there’s already universal background checks. They don’t understand why there wouldn’t be a background check to purchase a weapon.

I don’t pay a lot of attention to polls.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

I meet young people who know me and are familiar with my stuff. They know the package. They might have cherry-picked five or six key tunes. That’s how it seems to work. I sometimes wonder if they realise they are not getting the whole context.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

There’s strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

We’re going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

Those who cry out that the government should ‚do something‘ never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

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

As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.

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

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.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Facebook is uniquely positioned to answer questions that people have, like, what sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York lately and liked? These are queries you could potentially do with Facebook that you couldn’t do with anything else, we just have to do it.

Two million felons have tried to buy a gun and, because of the background check, have been denied.

Some of my colleagues argue that by further curtailing our Second Amendment rights, they can enhance public safety. Fine, the burden of proof is on them.

Guns are bad, I tell you.

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking – or lack of thinking.

We polled Tesla owners, do you want autopilot disabled or not. Not one person wanted it disabled. That’s pretty telling.

People should not be in a position where their children have access to weapons and ammunition.

I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters – the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

The NICS database has holes big enough to drive a Mack truck through.

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

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect – if you’re a moderate on abortion, if you’re a moderate on gun control, or if you’re a moderate in your religious faith – it doesn’t evolve into a crusade where you’re either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

I don’t think we need more gun control laws.

If you’re a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis.

Beto’s copy of the Bill of Rights goes from one to three. Mine includes the Second Amendment. But there are a whole host of people here in Washington… they would be happy to confiscate America’s guns. And if you don’t believe that, then you probably also still believe in Bigfoot.