Action Quote by Jack Kemp

I think there are some things ... that may even be distorted in the practice, such as some affirmative action programs becoming quota systems.…

— Ronald Reagan

Here's the point - you're looking at affirmative action, and you're looking at marijuana. You legalize marijuana, no need for quotas, because really, who's…

— Jon Stewart

The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some…

— Quentin Bryce

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

— Clarence Thomas

Though it's impossible for us to legislate one's thoughts and feelings, we still need things like affirmative action in place because without measures like…

— Jonathan Coleman

“the American Government is in fact enforcing a system of employment on the universities under which they are required, under pain of bankruptcy, to…

— Hans Eysenck

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. That [affirmative action] programs may have…

— Clarence Thomas

The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for the most…

— Cornel West

Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

— Harold Washington

Let's be clear about one thing everyone should know: Affirmative action is constitutional.

— Maya Wiley

The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.

— Harold Washington

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

— John Kasich