Statistical work is not about randomly filling in numbers into a few grids, but about using numbers to illustrate the various social types in which the phenomenon under study has fully manifested or is currently manifesting in real life. ——Lenin

Any construction work, any national work, any planning work is unthinkable without correct calculations. And without statistics, calculation is unthinkable. ——Stalin

Calculation and supervision - these are the main conditions necessary to "adjust" the first stage of communist society so that it can operate normally. ——Lenin

In the ultimate analysis, all knowledge is history; in the abstract sense, all science is mathematics; in the rational world, all judgments are statistics. ——C.R. Rao

Produce real data to ensure the scientific basis of government decision-making; do solid work to interpret the ordinary elegance of statistical life.