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Thread #28365   Message #352452
Posted By: Wolfgang
06-Dec-00 - 01:06 PM
Thread Name: BS: Election statistics
Subject: RE: BS: Election statistics
The nearest quotation from Churchill I have been able to find is:

I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.'' (Winston Churchill)

Wolfgang