Andrew Lang Quote

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination.


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


Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination.

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination.

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination.

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination.