#population

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts. ↗

— James Madison

#agriculture #america #arts #encouraged #had

An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million. ↗

— Gary Miller

#double #estimated #illegal #illegal immigrants #immigrant

A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#bloody #civilian #country #moscow #other

Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#aged #aging #had #health #japan

I believe that the emphasis on curbing population growth diverts attention from the more vital issue of pursuing policies that allow the population to take care of itself. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#family-planning #population-control #poverty #family

A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#eventually #finite #growth #must #only

But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#biological #calling #chemical #denser #natural

Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#course #evidence #growth #growth rate #might

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#interplay #know #none #population #potentialities

As the population of Georgia increased dramatically, so did development. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#did #dramatically #georgia #increased #population