“The forces at work in healthy party politics are centripetal; they encourage factions and interests to come together to work out common… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
Affirmative action has provided affirmative opportunities for capable, competent, and qualified persons to succeed on their merits or fail on their demerits. — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass. — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
“In the wake of 1984’s pummeling the Michigan Democratic Party commissioned Stanley Greenberg, then a political scientist and later a preeminent Democratic… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some would argue that the president himself benefited from a form of affirmative action because as a C student, he only got… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I have been a long and strong supporter of civil rights in my whole career. I led the fight to get the… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
In Obama's case, we've enabled affirmative action to find a home in the nation's highest office. There you have it. I said… — Allen West Copy Share Image
“I miss Cindy McCain - she seemed so life-like. I'm a moderate lesbian - I only hold a grudge for six generations.… — Kate Clinton Copy Share Image
I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
“South Africa is the only country where an overwhelming majority in complete political control is apparently so threatened by a tiny minority… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
“Blacks must learn that true freedom from poverty is available only through hard work and perseverance, not through affirmative action programs, protesting,… — Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
“Charting liberal hypocrisy is now old hat. From academia to the Sierra Club, elite progressives expect to live lives that are quite… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Racial stereotyping. For Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights leaders, the sin of white racism was stereotyping all black people… — Kim R. Holmes Copy Share Image
If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
I think it's worth putting energy into affirmative action in terms of having diversity in positions of power because the door was… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
“amount to a fart in a cyclone. His parents and their parson had tried to sell him the same message, binding him… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
That is one of the reasons I oppose this whole Affirmative Action business. We are not supposed to be judged based on… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Diversity for diversity's sake is nothing more than affirmative action and can make no claim to being part of America's greatness. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me.… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
