"Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lampposts — for support rather than illumination."
— Statistics

January 1, 1970

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Andrew Lang, in a 1910 speech: as quoted in Alan L. Mackay, The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977), and reported in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (2005), p. 488.